Christian, This is progress! The paper that originally described the algorithm was by an author with a Chinese-sounding name. However, the paper you found may be just as relevant. I'll have a look at the links you gave and get back to you. Thanks, John On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:27:29PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:56 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > Lars, > > > > I did not get any other reply to my question about the source code of > > the program that produces the hyphenation tables. > > Some googling lead me to an openoffice wiki page where they list > dictionaries and hyphenation tables. There is a link to a tool named > hyphen [1] (which seems to be part of the hunspell project). There is > also a (pdf) paper by LÁSZLÓ NÉMETH [2] that explains the algorithm. I > tried to run it through pdftotxt but the tables and tables and figures > need some serious hand-editing to make them readable. > > Let me know if this is the paper you are talking about and if you would > like me to do this hand-editing. > > Thanks > Christian > > [1] > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143754&package_id=231949 > [2] > http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=143754&filename=tb87nemeth.pdf&a=69728794 > > -- > Christian Egli > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/godtouches Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com