I hope that crenz forgives me for jumping in, but I was involved German dictionary typesetting around the time of the spelling reform. I'm also a TeX fiend, so I know my way around hyphenation.

Sometime in the mid-late 1990s, Germany decided to simplify its spelling, and get rid of some of the weirder perceived idiosyncracies. The official change came in August 1998, according to this informative article from german.about.com.

One of the most visible changes was cutting down on the use of the good old "sharp S" symbol, ß. No longer will so many foreigners to think that German for street was pronounced "strabe".

Several compound words were also split up into their component words. For this, the typesetters of the world thank you, for setting German in a narrow measure was always a challenge.

The change (I think; the input of a native German speaker would be appreciated) in hyphenation was interesting. One example is the ck formation would hyphenate to k-k, so the actual spelling of the word used to change.

I'd be very surprised if there weren't new TeX hyphenation dictionaries for German. TeX has a very large following in Germany. If it's not on CTAN, I'd be amazed.

Oh, and before people start corresponding with me in German, I don't have any. I might know how to typeset the language, I can sort-of read it, but replying is waaaay beyond me...

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In reply to Re: Re: Splitting text into syllables by Willard B. Trophy
in thread Splitting text into syllables by crenz

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