[tex-hyphen] Dictio-nary ?

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/15/2024 12:59 PM, Arthur Rosendahl wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 09:19:08AM -0600, Doug McKenna wrote:
>> So what is Webster's rationale for the difference?  It seems plainly incorrect.
> 
>    Damned if I know :-)  I find the hyphenation dic-tio-nary defensible,
> even if it may be felt to be inconsistent with other words.  Perhaps you
> can ask your editor acquaintance to explain why “it would not be
> right” to hyphenate that way, because that’s rather a strong statement.
> Considering the many idiosyncrasies of English hyphenation, and the
> different schools, there are very few things that would actually be
> incorrect, in my opinion.
> 
>    I noted two further cases that surprised me: ple-nary and ra-tio-nal,
> according to Webster’s and hyph-en-us.tex (which contains a pattern
> ration4, preventing the break ration-al).
One can argue that given the many (unpredictable) ways to pronounce 
english without knowing the word, one should make sure not to end up 
with a split that makes it hard to guess what the whole word is (is 
prnounced) when one is at the end of a line.

Hans


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