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Old 09-02-2009, 02:57 PM   #513
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Originally Posted by Ankh View Post
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.
Ok... let me put aside for a moment that I don't think this idea is feasible... particularly because I might have run out of cogent arguments as to why...

How would you go about building such a database, Ankh?

Just processing oodles and oodles of PG eTexts, and manually hyphenate the words therefrom?

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