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1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.
Judging by our own frequent experience with government agencies, federal, state, and local, the most common cause of bad foreign language publications is simply the practice of considering translation and foreign-language typesetting as if they were commodities and awarding the work to the lowest bidder--who is often incompetent.
Today, compositors rely far too much on the automatic hyphenation programs packaged with their computer typesetting systems.
With the emergence of computer typesetting in the 1960s, it seemed likely that the analysis of large bodies of text from newspapers and periodicals (in particular) would be facilitated, for one of the greatest expenses was the cost of keyboarding the texts into machine-readable form so that they could be processed speedily and economically by computer.
After all, it has been 15 years, since the early days of computerized typesetting, that I've seen anything to compare with the single article about sexual dysfunction in a newspaper in Virginia that contained these two algorithm-driven hyphenations: the-rapist and mole-ster.
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