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Originally Posted by ahi
Do you really consider feasible a hyphenation database that contains all actual words it addresses, along with all their compounded, conjugated/declined (and apostrophe-laden?) forms? Even for languages unlike English, where prefixes, suffices, conjugations, and declensions can create over a 100 valid and sensible words from a 3 letter root word?
Given how utterly technically simple this is, you'd think all word processors would be using it by now. (Though "present" in English, and many words in other languages would continue to be incorrectly auto-hyphenated.)
- Ahi
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Feasible? Yes. Massive OED dictionaries are available for PC, this database will most likely be smaller than that.
The process would be SLOW, most likely. But it is done once, on PC, when book is made. Our desktops are very capable machines.
The situation with "present" and ambiguous cases in other languages IS NOT a concern, since we are NOT doing machine-only hyphenation here. The database can recognize such cases and ask for human intervention. You resolve it once, during book creation.
I really don't see any problems with the method.