[Tugindia] hyphenation according to word breacking dictionary

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Wed Jul 21 08:28:26 CEST 2004


krishan gopal goswami <krishan_gopi at yahoo.com> writes:

> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am a TeX user, I am facing some problem in
> hyphenation pattern which comes automatically from
> TeX,
> I have a word breacking dictionary, some of its words
> are given below having hyphen in the place where the
> word may break if required. I have tried to change the
> hyphenation pattern from default US hyphenation to UK
> hyphenation, but it is still not the same which I
> need.

[...]

> What penalty should I fix to get proper hyphenation?
> Is there any document having detail about complete
> hyphenation process of a Dictionary.

Appendix H of the TeXbook has some information, and the source code
for the `patgen' program that should come as part of your TeX
distribution should have some more.

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