Am 1999-06-22 um 2:14 h hat Michael Everson geschrieben: > Of course the old ban on hyphenating st and ck was due to the use of lead > ligatures of st and ck in Fraktur typography. So I have been told, many times. But this does not explain why the old orthography demanded a hyphenation of "ck" (as in Zuk- ker") in contrast to the ban on hyphenating "st" (as in "Gelü- ste"). > One presumes that such rules must continue to apply in modern German > written in Fraktur. The official regulation does not have any particular spelling, or hyphenating, rules for Fraktur (or German script, btw). One would expect, at least, a rule about long vs. round "s", but there isn't any. I guess, the authors of this regulation have overlooked the whole issue. Best wishes, Otto Stolz