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Old 09-03-2009, 09:27 AM   #530
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Originally Posted by WillAdams View Post
Believe it or not, there's already been an effort to collect such words:

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92hyf.pdf

William
Hmmm... this is only about collecting exceptions. In other words correcting mistaken hyphenations (that resulted from the pattern-matching [and not word-matching] hyphenation algorithms) when somebody finds them. The difference with the approach suggested above is that it should not (other than through the editor's/compiler's carelessness) result in hyphenations at all for words that do not explicitly show up on the list with a hyphenation pattern... thus being less prone to give people a false sense of security about words having been correctly hyphenated, when, in fact, those words were not explicitly part of the wordlist that produced the hyphenation pattern rules.

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