<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: trebuchet\ ms, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank you very much! I hope for a fruitful communication with the people at OUP.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: trebuchet\ ms, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sincerely,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: trebuchet\ ms, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dominik Wujastyk<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor <a href="http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Dominik Wujastyk</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br>Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br></font><div><font size="1"><a href="http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Department of History and Classics</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div></font></div><font size="1">University of Alberta, Canada<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><br></font></div><div><font size="1">South Asia at the U of A:</font><font size="1" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(17,85,204);display:inline"> </div><a href="http://sas.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sas.ualberta.ca</a><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div></div></div><font size="1">
</font></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2018 at 10:54, Chair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chair@sfep.org.uk" target="_blank">chair@sfep.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dear <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">Professor </span>Dominik Wujastyk</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Thank you for your message. The SfEP is not a co-author if the book you mention, but I forwarded your enquiry to one of my contacts in senior management at OUP and she will sent it on to somebody better able to help you.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Best wishes</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sabine Citron</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4190314441906644649gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#999999">Sabine Citron<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Chair<br>Society for Editors and Proofreaders<br>Apsley House<br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=176+Upper+Richmond+Road+London%C2%A0SW15+2SH&entry=gmail&source=g">176 Upper Richmond Road</a><br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=176+Upper+Richmond+Road+London%C2%A0SW15+2SH&entry=gmail&source=g">London SW15 2SH</a></font></span></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="http://www.sfep.org.uk/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.sfep.org.uk</a></font></span></font><br></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2018 at 17:32, Dominik Wujastyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wujastyk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wujastyk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>
Dear Prof. Citron,<br><br>I am writing to you as Chair of the SfEP, because the SfEP is named as a main contributor to the <i>New Oxford Spelling Dictionary </i>(2005, ISBN 978-0-19-956999-1).<br><br></div><div>In the 1991, as a member of the UK TeX Users Group, I collaborated with colleagues in developing a set of word-division rules specifically for British English, for use with the TeX typesetting software. This software is widely used, especially by authors and typesetters dealing with complex documents. <br><br>The word-division rules were based on a list of about 150,000 hyphenated words that was kindly shared with us by Andrew Rosenheim, then Director of OUP's Electronic Publishing department, and Ruth Glynn, who also worked in the same department. The word division broadly mirrored those published in Robert Allen's <i>Minidictionary of Spelling and Word Division </i>(1986 and later eds.). <br> <br>The UK TeX Users Group undertook not to share the original list of OUP's hyphenated words, but only the compiled, machine-readable code used internally by TeX. The results were of great satisfaction to many British authors and typesetters, and I believe produced goodwill on all sides.<br><br></div><div>I recently had the opportunity to study the <i>New Oxford Spelling Dictionary</i>, and I see that many word-division points are different from those published in the Allen <i>Minidictionary</i>, and also those given by the OUP-derived TeX hyphenation algorithm. Evidently, usage has evolved in the last two or three decades, as one could expect.<br><br></div><div>The TeX community is now interested in updating TeX's British hyphenation patterns to match those in the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary. We would like to contact someone at OUP who has the authority to discuss this matter with us, and to offer a copyright release if it is deemed appropriate. <br></div><div><br>Can you help to put us in touch with the appropriate person?<br><br></div><div>With best wishes,<br></div><div>Dominik Wujastyk<br><br></div><div>and <br></div><div>Dr Phil Taylor (UK TeX Users Group custodian of the TeX British Hyphenation project)<br></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="m_4190314441906644649m_-6517935473453692107gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor <a href="http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Dominik Wujastyk</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br>Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br></font><div><font size="1"><a href="http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Department of History and Classics</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div></font></div><font size="1">University of Alberta, Canada<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><br></font></div><div><font size="1">South Asia at the U of A:</font><font style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif" size="1"><div style="color:rgb(17,85,204);display:inline"> </div><a href="http://sas.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sas.ualberta.ca</a><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div></div></div><font size="1">
</font></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>