README_hyph_en_US.txt

hyph_en_US.dic - American English hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org

version 2011-10-07

- remove unnecessary parts for the new Hyphen 2.8.2

version 2010-03-16

Changes

- forbid hyphenation at 1-character distances from dashes (eg. ad=d-on)
  and at the dashes (fix for OpenOffice.org 3.2)
- set correct LEFTHYPHENMIN = 2, RIGHTHYPHENMIN = 3
- handle apostrophes (forbid *o'=clock etc.)
- set COMPOUNDLEFTHYPHENMIN, COMPOUNDRIGHTHYPHENMIN values
- UTF-8 encoding
- Unicode ligature support

License

BSD-style. Unlimited copying, redistribution and modification of this file
is permitted with this copyright and license information.

See original license in this file.

Conversion and modifications by László Németh (nemeth at OOo).

Based on the plain TeX hyphenation table
(http://tug.ctan.org/text-archive/macros/plain/base/hyphen.tex) and
the TugBoat hyphenation exceptions log in
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/digests/tugboat/tb0hyf.tex, processed
by the hyphenex.sh script (see in the same directory).

Originally developed and distributed with the Hyphen hyphenation library,
see http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ for the source files and the conversion
scripts.

Licenses

hyphen.tex:
% The Plain TeX hyphenation tables [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
% Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long
% as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if
% the resulting file is not named hyphen.tex.

output of hyphenex.sh:
% Hyphenation exceptions for US English, based on hyphenation exception
% log articles in TUGboat.
%
% Copyright 2007 TeX Users Group.
% You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
%
% This is an automatically generated file.  Do not edit!
%
% Please contact the TUGboat editorial staff <tugboat@tug.org>
% for corrections and omissions.

hyph_en_US.txt:
See the previous licenses.