MAYER-A@RICEVM1.BITNET (David Mayer) (08/18/90)
I am writing an application which needs to divide words into syllables.
I suspect that there must be existing routines which can do this. Does
anyone know where I could get such a beast??
Alternately, does anyone know of any standard rules for dividing English
words into syllables? I would be happy to write the routine myself if
I only new the rules. And some rules must exist--word processors, for
example, can decide where to divide words.
Any help would be most appreciated.
David Mayer
Bitnet: MAYER-A@RICEVM1MAYER-A@RICEVM1.BITNET (David Mayer) (08/18/90)
Does anyone know where I could get a routine which divides words into syllables. Such an animal _must_ exist...my word processor knows how to divide words at the end of a line. I would even be happy to write my own routine if I knew of a set of rules for dividing words. Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, David Mayer Bitnet: MAYER-A@RICEVM1
ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (08/20/90)
In article <1755MAYER-A@RICEVM1> MAYER-A@RICEVM1.BITNET (David Mayer) writes: >I am writing an application which needs to divide words into syllables. >I suspect that there must be existing routines which can do this. Does >anyone know where I could get such a beast?? You might look at the discussion and code in chapter 7, "Hyphenation," in Allen Holub, C CHEST AND OTHER C TREASURES FROM DR. DOBB'S JOURNAL (M & T Books, 1987). Earl H. Kinmonth
walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole) (09/01/90)
You might want to examine the algorithm used by TeX, which does a darn good job: the TeXbook or the Liang thesis Stanford 1983.