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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:23:17 IST
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- From: "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki,
- Sociology" <JTAKALA@FINUHA.BITNET>
- Subject: manual hyphen aid
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- I wrote an XPL program to help in manual insertion of conditional
- hyphens. I did it with Finnish in mind, but I thought it might be
- useful for any language for which NB lacks hyphenation support. The
- program looks for 'long' (user definable) unhyphenated strings at line
- beginnings and drops the cursor there. The user then can insert a
- hyphen right there, or first move about with cursor keys, or leave the
- word as is, and the pgm moves on (unless told to quit). The exact
- character to put the cursor on is determined by a procedure simulating
- Finnish hyphenation rules. This part, however, can easily be stripped
- (for somewhat faster performance) or replaced by other rules.
-
- I'd be glad to send this program to anyone insterested.
-
- J-P Takala
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- Jukka-Pekka.Takala@Helsinki.FI
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