Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation patterns

9 Oct 2020


      On 10/9/2020 9:01 AM, Denis Maier wrote:
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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?
you can add your own runtime in a style:
\hyphenation {fo-ob-ar} \hsize 1mm foobar

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