[tex-hyphen] Word-division in British English

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thank you very much!  I hope for a fruitful communication with the people
at OUP.

Sincerely,
Dominik Wujastyk

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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On 4 April 2018 at 10:54, Chair <chair at sfep.org.uk> wrote:

> Dear Professor Dominik Wujastyk
>
> 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.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Sabine Citron
>
> Sabine Citron
> Chair
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> On 4 April 2018 at 17:32, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Prof. Citron,
>>
>> I am writing to you as Chair of the SfEP, because the SfEP is named as a
>> main contributor to the *New Oxford Spelling Dictionary *(2005, ISBN
>> 978-0-19-956999-1).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 *Minidictionary of Spelling and Word Division *(1986 and
>> later eds.).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I recently had the opportunity to study the *New Oxford Spelling
>> Dictionary*, and I see that many word-division points are different from
>> those published in the Allen *Minidictionary*, 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Can you help to put us in touch with the appropriate person?
>>
>> With best wishes,
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>
>> and
>> Dr Phil Taylor (UK TeX Users Group custodian of the TeX British
>> Hyphenation project)
>>
>> ​
>> --
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
>> ​,​
>>
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>> ​,​
>>
>> Department of History and Classics
>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
>> ​,​
>> University of Alberta, Canada
>> ​.​
>>
>> South Asia at the U of A:
>>
>> ​sas.ualberta.ca​
>> ​​
>>
>>
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