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Re: minor hyphenation issue


From: Dave Kemper
Subject: Re: minor hyphenation issue
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 17:19:16 -0500

Hi, Werner and Barbara,

Thanks, Werner, for the explanation and for passing my email along to
the correct person.



On 4/7/17, Barbara Beeton <address@hidden> wrote:
> i've added "back-pedal" and "back-pedal-ing" to the list.

Thank you, Barbara.

The division given at
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backpedal is back-ped-al.
But I note that other words in this list lack some syllable divisions
presumably for aesthetic reasons, and separating the -al (or -aling or
other ending) from backped- seemingly falls into that category.

This dictionary entry lists no conjugations, but if we assume that
Merriam-Webster's conjugations for "pedal" apply to "backpedal" as
well, the full set (including US and UK spellings) would be:

back-ped-als
back-ped-aled
back-ped-alled
back-ped-aling
back-ped-alling

(Merriam-Webster does not supply syllable division for the -ing
versions, though there should clearly be another syllable break here.
My guess would be "back-ped-al-ing" (as you wrote above) and
"back-ped-al-ling".)



The other words in which I've noticed hyphenation issues are those
rare English words that use diacritics.  In groff, I see that
"tmac/hyphenex.us" is all ASCII, whereas "tmac/hyphenex.cs" and
"tmac/hyphenex.det" specify Latin-* encodings.  So the framework does
not currently seem to support hyphenation exceptions for English words
with letters outside of ASCII.  Is this limitation on the groff end or
the TeX one?



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