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ahi wrote:
>some of these languages will be such that they will have words whose meaning, and therefore correct hyphenation, depends entirely on the semantic context.
and Dawnfalcon asked
>Which language is that?
English for one, see my example for ``present'' in the post just above.
The Knuth & Plass paper which I cited has a formal proof and discussion of the impossibility of finding the perfect set of breaks for a paragraph.
jbjb --- you keep saying that something is possible (machine-done, perfect page composition) and asking people to prove that it's not possible --- yet you can't prove that it is possible by showing us a single implementation --- yet a large number of people, some of whom work in this field are stating that it isn't possible, and have pointed you to research papers on the difficulties of this task.
I can't even find a grammar checker which can reliably disambiguate between the two different forms of ``present'', let alone every other such word in the English language --- and that's only a small part of the problem.
William
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