Technical Reports

The report FIMU-RS-95-04

Notes on Compound Word Hyphenation in TeX

by Petr Sojka, August 1995, 12 pages.

FIMU-RS-95-04. Available as Postscript, PDF.

Abstract:

The problems of the automatic compound word and discretionary hyphenation in TeX are discussed. These hyphenation points have to be marked manually in the TeX source file so far. Several methods how to tackle with these problems are observed. The results obtained from experiments with German wordlist are discussed.