<div dir="ltr">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. <br><br>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.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 5:04 PM, David Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfhmch@googlemail.com" target="_blank">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Since my 9:26pm reply, I've been a busy bee, and generated a counted list of<br>
the Lingala words that contain a soft hyphen.<br>
<br>
i.e. After I removed the multiple and "useless" occurrences.<br>
<br>
There are 4584 such words, though one escapee has just "ambushed" me.<br>
<br>
001 Israel<br>
<br>
This one begins with a soft hyphen, so how did it escape the systematic cull<br>
?<br>
(I suppose being a "prince with God" does help ....)<br>
<br>
It's in Ezekiel 35:12 which reads:<br>
<br>
\v 12 Bongo okoyeba ’te ngai Yawe nayoki mafinga manso olobaki ona ngomba ya<br>
Israel : « Ngomba ikomi mipotu, tozwi yango mpo tosilisa yango. »<br>
<br>
That particular soft hyphen is preceded by a space, so I'm puzzled as to why<br>
this "useless" one got left behind.<br>
<br>
Curioser and curioser....<br>
<br>
The next step may prove to be even more fascinating.<br>
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David<br>
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