Notes on Compound Word Hyphenation in TeX
Petr Sojka · 1995
In (Sojka and Ševeček 1994) we presented a case study of problems related to achieving quality hyphenation in TEX — especially pattern generation for flexive languages like Czech. It was shown that pretty much issues can be handled within the frame of good old TEX, but some of them definitely not, because TEX wasn’t primarily designed from the beginning as a universal tool for the typesetting of all kinds of publications in all languages, but typesetting of The Art of Computer Programming (Knuth 1968–) in American English was the initial motivation. In this paper we continue elaborating these issues, with the emphasis on the hyphenation problems in the presence of long compound words in Germanic (and Slavic) languages.