Language and English

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Fri Jan 4 18:26:59 2002

It was thus said that the Great Don Maslin once stated:
>
> Well Hans, it is probably less objectionable that the right column
> justified printing that we see in newspaper printing which frequently
> ends up with unbelievable spaces in the middle of test. Equally,
> objectionable is the computerized hyphenation which oftimes totally
> ignores the most basic rules. A pox on both.

  I wonder why most typography systems don't use the system developed by
Donald Knuth for TeX. It easily handles about 95% of the cases for
hyphenation, and when it breaks down, you can give it hints for words it
missed.

  -spc (O. T. since TeX is older than 10 years 8-)
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 18:26:59 GMT