A Roadmap for Universal Syllabic Segmentation
Space- and time-effective segmentation (word hyphenation) of natural languages remains at the core of every document rendering system, be it TeX, web browser, or mobile operating system. In most languages, segmentation mimicking syllabic pronunciation is a pragmatic preference today. As language switching is often not marked in rendered texts, the typesetting engine needs universal syllabic segmentation. In this article, we show the feasibility of this idea by offering a prototype solution to two...