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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+I have compiled a Portuguese hyphenation table for TeX. It turned out to be a
+rather short table (compared to the one for English) because Portuguese has very
+concise rules for hyphenation.
+
+I'd like to make this table public and freely distributed. Even included in the
+distribution tapes. I have extensively tested it (with patgen) and haven't found
+any erroneous hyphenation. It does miss some hyphens but they are very very few.
+It certainly does not hyphenate a word beyond an accent or a cedilla, but that's
+the way TeX handles hyphenation of words with intervening macros (cf. Appendix H
+of The TeXbook).
+
+Pedro J. de Rezende rezende@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
+
+College of Computer Science (617) 437-2078
+Northeastern University
+360 Huntington Avenue
+Boston MA 02115
+