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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.
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.
[In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).
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.
For example, MIPS is a convenient acronym for millions of instructions per second, point and click is a quick and direct way of describing basic mouse techniques, and run-around , borrowed from typesetting, is an apt metaphor for the way text flows around the outside edges of a graphic image.
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