On Thursday 24 January 2008 18:17:13 Scott Meyers wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> > You can't, in general. You just have to deal with the fact that there
> > are always going to be exceptional and difficult cases. A problem that I
> > had a couple of years back, for example, was in transcribing an
> > 18th-century play (William Dunlap's 1798 "André: a tragedy in five
> > acts"), which has a character named "M‘Donald". (Look again.)
>
> I agree that there will always be corner cases, but I don't know that
> either of us has given an example of one. In my case, I'd be happy for "+"
> and "_" to be treated as alphabetic characters, i.e., parts of words. (As
> opposed to characters indicating breaks between words, e.g. spaces, tabs,
> hard line breaks, etc.) In your case, you'd presumably like "‘" to be
> treated as such a character. All OO would need would be a way for us to
> specify which characters should be treated as parts of words. Then it'd be
> just a matter of specifying hyphenation points/rules, which I assume OO
> already allows.
>
> Scott
And here may be a wayout solution. The dictionary files are text based.
Are the hyphenated files also text based? If so, is it possible to include
c++ in the proper hyphenated file in a way that it will never be hyphenated?
Just a thought.
Dan
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