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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label hyphen</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>How does hyphenation work in TeX?</h3>
-<p/>Everyone knows what hyphenation is: we see it in most books we read,
-and (if we&#8217;re alert) will spot occasional ridiculous mis-hyphenation
-(at one time, British newspapers were a fertile source).
-<p/>Hyphenation styles are culturally-determined, and the same language
-may be hyphenated differently in different countries &#8212; for example,
-British and American styles of hyphenation of English are very
-different. As a result, a typesetting system that is not restricted
-to a single language at a single locale needs to be able to change its
-hyphenation rules from time to time.
-<p/>TeX uses a pretty good system for hyphenation (originally designed
-by Frank Liang &#8212; you may view his
-<a href="http://tug.org/docs/liang/">Ph.D. thesis</a> online), and while
-it&#8217;s capable of missing &#8220;sensible&#8221; hyphenation points, it seldom
-selects grossly wrong ones. The
-algorithm matches candidates for hyphenation against a set of
-&#8220;hyphenation patterns&#8221;. The candidates for hyphenation must be
-sequences of letters (or other single characters that TeX may be
-persuaded to think of as letters) &#8212; things such as TeX&#8217;s
-<code>\</code><code>accent</code> primitive interrupt hyphenation.
-<p/>Sets of hyphenation patterns are usually derived from analysis of
-a list of valid hyphenations (the process of derivation, using a tool
-called <i>patgen</i>, is not ordinarily a participatory sport).
-<p/>The patterns for the languages a TeX system is going to deal with
-may only be loaded when the system is installed. To change the set of
-languages, a <a href="FAQ-newlang.html">partial reinstallation</a> is necessary.
-<p/>TeX provides two &#8220;user-level&#8221; commands for control of
-hyphenation: <code>\</code><code>language</code> (which selects a hyphenation style), and
-<code>\</code><code>hyphenation</code> (which gives explicit instructions to the hyphenation
-engine, overriding the effect of the patterns).
-<p/>The ordinary LaTeX user need not worry about <code>\</code><code>language</code>, since
-it is very thoroughly managed by the <i>babel</i> package; use of
-<code>\</code><code>hyphenation</code> is discussed in
- the context of
-
-<a href="FAQ-nohyph.html">hyphenation failure</a>.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphen">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphen</a>
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