[sword-devel] Soft hyphens

[Michael H]

If you have a list of words with valid hyphenation points, it is very
valuable to someone someday that list is documented as a spelling
dictionary, even if it is incomplete and known to be. Finding valid
hyphenation points is the biggest chunk of time in preparing for
publication. and in many African languages, the average word length makes
this nearly essential to publish in hardcopy.

I know this is outside of Sword's or Crosswire's pervue, but if you are
returning upstream a Bible text with soft hyphens stripped, providing them
a separate wordlist containing hyphenation points will eventually be
invaluable to them. (Unless the language is well document and has a
complete open source hyphenation database available.)

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 5:04 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Since my 9:26pm reply, I've been a busy bee, and generated a counted list
> of
> the Lingala words that contain a soft hyphen.
>
> i.e. After I removed the multiple and "useless" occurrences.
>
> There are 4584 such words, though one escapee has just "ambushed" me.
>
> 001     ­Israel
>
> This one begins with a soft hyphen, so how did it escape the systematic
> cull
> ?
> (I suppose being a "prince with God" does help ....)
>
> It's in Ezekiel 35:12 which reads:
>
> \v 12 Bongo okoyeba ’te ngai Yawe nayoki mafinga manso olobaki ona ngomba
> ya
> ­Israel : « Ngomba ikomi mipotu, to­zwi yango mpo tosilisa yango. »
>
> That particular soft hyphen is preceded by a space, so I'm puzzled as to
> why
> this "useless" one got left behind.
>
> Curioser and curioser....
>
> The next step may prove to be even more fascinating.
>
> David
>
>
>
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