DIHYPH - Hyphenations



Silbentrennungen, division ou coupure des mots, division (silabica),
divisione delle parole (in sillabe)



are available for 40 different natural languages.
Other languages are in preparation.


All DIHYPH programs

since more than 30 years now are world wide part of renowned typesetting-,
text- and publishing-systems on all sorts of operating systems.


after years of development give highest quality and variety, confirmed by
numerous comparative tests with other programs carried out by our clients.


are not dictionary- but algorithm-based.
Algorithm is following the grammatical rules of each language.
Where the rules are insufficient (combined words, special expressions,
foreign words), they are corrected by program tables consisting of critical
letter combinations, word connections etc.


are of highest accuracy even with new word creations and foreign expressions,
and they are very fast.


not only split words with highest accuracy but also complicated combinations
of letters and other characters, combinations too numerous to be stored into
dictionaries, e.g. M./Laibach Hohl-(Decken-)Ziegel CAD-/CAM-School ISDN//Abo
especially with justified text, to get all possible hyphenations is indisputable,
else you end up with unacceptable long gaps in text lines.


contain language dependant default values for minimum length of words and
first/last syllable, forbidden hyphenations etc. that may be redefined by user.


are able to learn:
Complete or truncated words may be stored into editable exception diction-
aries, several of them accessable by hyphenation simultaneously.


may be adapted easily to every character coding even by end-user.


are C-language subroutines adaptable to special text- /typesetting-commands.


are defining quality ranking 1 - 5 for every hyphen position.
User himself may define which ranking he wants for aesthetic line-breaking.
Quality ranking numbers 1 - 5 may also be inserted in exception dictionaries.
Following examples show effect of quality ranking:
ranking 1          ranking 5
---------------------------------
micro-organism     microor-ganism
mis-informed       misin-formed
per-secute         perse-cute
chemo-therapy      chemother-apy



DIHYPH hyphenations are available as:
Dynamic libraries for Windows, Mac oder Linux




Please read also:

Product information, test reports, references

Detailed descriptions of all programs




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