Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation patterns

Am 09.10.2020 um 08:57 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

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On 9 Oct 2020, at 08:52, Denis Maier wrote:

Am 08.10.2020 um 19:05 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

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\starttext

{EN: \en\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}

{DE: \de\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}

\stoptext

Wow, that's super helpful. The English pattern seems to be "ap-plic-a-ble" According to Meriam-Webster it should just be "ap·​pli·​ca·​ble".

{EN: \en\hyphenatedcoloredword{obligate}} gives me "ob-lig-ate" According to Meriam-Webster it should be "ob·​li·​gate".

I've had a look at the files mentioned by Tomáš, but as these are not just wordlists I can not really tell what is happening.

So, is that a bug? Not really. hyphenation patterns are a bit like applying JPEG compression to a dictionary. It makes the data size smaller by recognising patterns while ignoring outliers.

Occasional errors are to be expected, which is why \hyphenation exists.

I see. I've noticed lang-us.lua has a list of exceptions in it:  ["exceptions"]={   ["characters"]="abcdefghijlmnoprstuyz",   ["data"]="as-so-ciate as-so-ciates dec-li-na-tion oblig-a-tory phil-an-thropic present presents project projects reci-procity re-cog-ni-zance ref-or-ma-tion ret-ri-bu-tion ta-ble",   ["length"]=168,   ["n"]=14,  }, Would it be possible to add more exceptions to that list as they come up? Or is that inappropriate? Denis