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Check and, if necessary, improve the hyphenation of “memorandum” in British English #253

Closed ghost closed 11 months ago

ghost commented 11 months ago

According to The New Oxford Spelling Dictionary, The Writers' and Editors' Guide to Spelling and Word Division by Maurice Waite, 2005, ISBN 0-19-860881-0, ISBN 978-0-19-860881-3 (cf. an online library), page 313, it's

memo|ran¦dum
memo|randa
memo|ran¦dums

The 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th printed editions of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A S Hornby also say

memo•ran•dum

Ideally, also the current version of these dictionaries as well as The Oxford minidictionary of spelling and word division should be consulted, but I don't have either of them.

However, the current LaTeX says memor-andum. This is probably (?) an error and should be improved.

Discussion: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/691742 .

u-fischer commented 11 months ago

Hyphenation patterns are not maintained by babel. The patterns are part of the hyph-utf8 package https://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8.

ghost commented 11 months ago

@u-fischer Alright, thanks! Posting there instead: https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/issues/59 .