Re: [NTG-context] Force a hyphenation

Thanks everybody very much for the explanations. — As I am Swiss, these matters with ß were never correctly understood and my knowledge about hyphenation is old… Thank you Thomas for pointing me to the Duden-rules. I will check-out the same issue about ck and k-k … Kind regards Willi

On 16 Mar 2022, at 17:29, Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context wrote:

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 05:17:46PM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:

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So Eiwei-ßes may in fact be correct... But I assume that Arthur has some authoritative answer to this question.

I’ll refer to the German hyphenation pattern list as an authority (https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/trennmuster) :-) But I do believe that you, Thomas, are right and that Eiwei-ßes is correct (while Ei-weißes is much better anyway). It is in fact logical: ‘ß’ in the new spelling means that the preceding sound is long, hence it has to be spelt that way always, not “analysed” as ‘ss’. If you were to hyphenate Straße as Stras-se, it would indicate a different pronunciation.

Best,

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