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In article <1991Jun18.095110.781@lsl.co.uk> robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:

   In article <1991Jun14.191028.14533@fys.ruu.nl>, spit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit) writes:
   > In <1991Jun14.143616.776@lsl.co.uk> robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
   > 
   >>This is because of the jolly rules of `proper' typesetting - don't (they
   >>say) hyphenate a word that's already been explicitly hyphenated.
   > Might be, but you will have difficulties with german 
   > and dutch (and probably a lot more languages) which
   > contain too many of these words to apply this rule.

   Oh dearie me - I stand corrected.  I just don't know enough German, 
   obviously, and my Dutch is next to non-existent (there are too many good 
   speakers of English in Holland for the incentive to be strong enough).

   Am I to understand that this is another instance in which TeX is 
   not-quite-perfect for the non English-speaking world?  Oh woe!

Don't get too depressed just yet.  Remember that non-English `versions'
of TeX have their own, different hyphenation tables.  And that with
TeX 3.0 there is (fairly) full support for multi-lingual TeX.
Remember also the impressive Japanese and Arabic (and no doubt other)
versions that exist.
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