<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">Dear ODO UK,<br><br>I have submitted the online form that you recommended, but I am afraid that I was not clear enough with my query. The form does not fit my enquiry.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default">In 1992, OUP shared with the <a href="http://uk.tug.org/">UK TeX User Group</a> the computer file of their word-divisions, an augmented version of those published in Robert Allen's <i>Minidictionary of Spelling and Word Division</i> (1986 and later eds.). The TeX Users Group used a piece of software called Patgen to process the supplied list of divided words into a binary file that the TeX program can use when typesetting. This gave TeX the ability to do British English hyphenation. Further explanation, and a list of the 67+ languages that TeX can hyphenate, is given on this <a href="https://www.tug.org/tex-hyphen/">TeX Hyphenation Patterns</a> page. The OUP-based patterns are those under English/ukenglish, British, UKenglish.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Today, over a quarter of a century later, the <i>New Oxford Spelling Dictionary</i> (2014) shows that many word-division points have been re-evaluated since the 1986 <i>Minidictionary</i>. We at the UK TeX Users Group are committed to maintaining TeX's position as the world's most widely-distributed and technically superior typesetting software. As you are no doubt aware, TeX is, and has always been, free and Open Access. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default">So we are approaching you at OUP ODO to request that we repeat the exercise of 1992, using OUP's more recent word-division lists. Specifically, we are requesting that you send us a file of words showing word-division points that match current OUP usage for British (not American) English.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default">With many thanks,<br></div><div class="gmail_default">Professor Dominik Wujastyk</div><br><div class="gmail_default"><br><br><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>
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With whom could I communicate about rights to access and use the hyphenation breaks published in the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary?<br>
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I was in touch with OUP in 1992 about this, with Andy Rosenheim and Ruth Glynn. Who would be the right contact today?<br>
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