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Originally Posted by WillAdams
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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Thanks, William.
I think one fundamental problem is that people assume that some of these problems are beyond them, but surely not beyond some people out there smart enough or computers out there fast enough. When in fact... in a way, it truly is. The problem has been solved the only way it can be: with intelligent and educated people doing a good bit of work in advance. Any other solution will be recognizable poorer in quality for the foreseeable future... even if not forever.
Shall we say: The fact that I don't know how to do something, does not mean that somebody else out there does, or even that it is practically doable at all.
- Ahi