From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 08:52:39 CST
Hi,
Philippe Verdy had written:
> For example, a ligaturing opportunity can be encoded explicitly
> in the French word "efficace": "ef"+ZWJ+"f"+ZWJ+"icace". [...]
> in French there's a possible hyphenation at the first occurence,
> where it is also a syllable break, but not for the second occurence
> that occurs in the middle of the second syllable.
Doug Ewell wrote:
> a system that is capable of high-quality typography [...]
> should generate ff-type ligatures and perform sensible hyphenation by default.
> You can then use ZWNJ to turn ligation *off* where it is not desired.
In German, however, a ligature must not span a syllable break.
How should I code plain text, w.r.t. hyphenation and ligatures?
- "Huf" + ZWNJ + "lattich"
- "Huf" + SYH + "lattich"
- "Huf" + SYH + ZWNJ + "lattich"
- "Huf" + ZWNJ + SYH + "lattich"
Note that there is no algorithm to reliably derive the position of the
syllable break from the spelling of a Word. You could even concoct pairs
of homographs that differ only in the position of the syllable break
(and, consequently, in their respective meaning). So far, I have only
found the somewhat silly example
- "Brief"+SYH+"lasche" (letter flap) vs.
- "Brie"+SYH+"flasche" (bottle to keep Brie cheese in),
but I am sure I could find better examples if I would try in earnest.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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