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Hyphenation errors with Word 2007
I have found that the dictionary in general in Word 2007 allows/suggests
hyphenation in the wrong places. Word 2003 had this issue with a few words but now it is a major issue. As a publisher, this is a serious problem. Has anyone found a work-around? Is Microsoft addressing this? Thanks |
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Hyphenation errors with Word 2007
Hello Pam
Pam wrote: I have found that the dictionary in general in Word 2007 allows/suggests hyphenation in the wrong places. Word 2003 had this issue with a few words but now it is a major issue. As a publisher, this is a serious problem. Has anyone found a work-around? Is Microsoft addressing this? I'm not sure they're aware. The natruallanguage-blog lists only one post dealing with hyphenation, and that's about a hotfix for German hyphenation: http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...r/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...ntrennung.aspx The blog post is still open for comments -- you could try it there, I suppose. FWIW, I've published a good deal of long Word documents over the years (in German and English), and I never relied on automatic hyphenation; mostly not due to lack of trust in the correct hyphenation of a word, but because Word's approach was not flexible enough/didn't produce the output we were aiming at (a lot more important in German with its many really long words, of course). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Hello Pam,
thanks so much for your input. We really do appreciate this kind of feedback. We are aware that our hyphenators don't rock - thanks to user feedback just like yours. And while we are convinced that we have made substantial improvements at least for German users with the latest hotfix release (which is also included in Office Serive Pack 2) we fully understand that further improvements will be needed to satisfy user needs. With regards to US English hyphenation in particular, this has the addional challenge that there is no standardized rule system in place that determines where hyphenation points need to occur and where not. Instead, US English has several competing rule systems (American Heritage, Strunk & White and others). This, of course, contributes to confusion as sometimes our hyphenator (which uses the American Heritage rule system) might not be wrong after all, but simply uses a different rule system than the user might expect. This, of course, is not meant to be an excuse for the fact that our US hyphenator provides more often wrong hyphenation points than it should, even according to American Heritage rules. Given all of this, we are working on a new version of the hyphenators for a number of languages, including English and German. We are doing our best to make sure that all the user issues and concerns we are hearing about will get addressed in the new versions. So, without making promises, if you have any set of particular words that you would like to see fixed we would be very much interested in getting these. Any one word can point us to a pattern issue that by getting it fixed would help us make significant improvements. We think of linguistic development as a never ending process. Each ship cycle we have only limited time and resources to get things done - and there is a very long list of features that needs our attention. Thus, our hyphenators will never be perfect. However, we do want them to be of a quality so that our users have confidence in using them. Shipping a feature that users disregard because they deem it not useful is personally not satisfying to me. Stefanie Schiller "Robert M. Franz [RMF]" wrote: Hello Pam Pam wrote: I have found that the dictionary in general in Word 2007 allows/suggests hyphenation in the wrong places. Word 2003 had this issue with a few words but now it is a major issue. As a publisher, this is a serious problem. Has anyone found a work-around? Is Microsoft addressing this? I'm not sure they're aware. The natruallanguage-blog lists only one post dealing with hyphenation, and that's about a hotfix for German hyphenation: http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...r/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...ntrennung.aspx The blog post is still open for comments -- you could try it there, I suppose. FWIW, I've published a good deal of long Word documents over the years (in German and English), and I never relied on automatic hyphenation; mostly not due to lack of trust in the correct hyphenation of a word, but because Word's approach was not flexible enough/didn't produce the output we were aiming at (a lot more important in German with its many really long words, of course). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Hyphenation errors with Word 2007
Stephanie,
Thanks for your informative response. I have put together a list of 50+ problem words that we see in our business use of Word 2007. I'm not sure how to get it to you, though. Please advise. Our reference for correct hyphenation is the Merriam-Webster. I was surprised to see your choices. Thanks again for your help. Pam "Stefanie Schiller [MSFT]" wrote: Hello Pam, thanks so much for your input. We really do appreciate this kind of feedback. We are aware that our hyphenators don't rock - thanks to user feedback just like yours. And while we are convinced that we have made substantial improvements at least for German users with the latest hotfix release (which is also included in Office Serive Pack 2) we fully understand that further improvements will be needed to satisfy user needs. With regards to US English hyphenation in particular, this has the addional challenge that there is no standardized rule system in place that determines where hyphenation points need to occur and where not. Instead, US English has several competing rule systems (American Heritage, Strunk & White and others). This, of course, contributes to confusion as sometimes our hyphenator (which uses the American Heritage rule system) might not be wrong after all, but simply uses a different rule system than the user might expect. This, of course, is not meant to be an excuse for the fact that our US hyphenator provides more often wrong hyphenation points than it should, even according to American Heritage rules. Given all of this, we are working on a new version of the hyphenators for a number of languages, including English and German. We are doing our best to make sure that all the user issues and concerns we are hearing about will get addressed in the new versions. So, without making promises, if you have any set of particular words that you would like to see fixed we would be very much interested in getting these. Any one word can point us to a pattern issue that by getting it fixed would help us make significant improvements. We think of linguistic development as a never ending process. Each ship cycle we have only limited time and resources to get things done - and there is a very long list of features that needs our attention. Thus, our hyphenators will never be perfect. However, we do want them to be of a quality so that our users have confidence in using them. Shipping a feature that users disregard because they deem it not useful is personally not satisfying to me. Stefanie Schiller "Robert M. Franz [RMF]" wrote: Hello Pam Pam wrote: I have found that the dictionary in general in Word 2007 allows/suggests hyphenation in the wrong places. Word 2003 had this issue with a few words but now it is a major issue. As a publisher, this is a serious problem. Has anyone found a work-around? Is Microsoft addressing this? I'm not sure they're aware. The natruallanguage-blog lists only one post dealing with hyphenation, and that's about a hotfix for German hyphenation: http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...r/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...ntrennung.aspx The blog post is still open for comments -- you could try it there, I suppose. FWIW, I've published a good deal of long Word documents over the years (in German and English), and I never relied on automatic hyphenation; mostly not due to lack of trust in the correct hyphenation of a word, but because Word's approach was not flexible enough/didn't produce the output we were aiming at (a lot more important in German with its many really long words, of course). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Hi Pam,
Thank you so much for your effort. I really very much appreciate this. The best way to get the list to me is to send it via mail, either in electronic or in printed form: Stefanie Schiller Building 17 / 2064 One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 I cannot make promises but I will do my best to make sure that the issues you have collected will get fixed in a future version. Thank you so much! Stefanie Schiller "Pam" wrote: Stephanie, Thanks for your informative response. I have put together a list of 50+ problem words that we see in our business use of Word 2007. I'm not sure how to get it to you, though. Please advise. Our reference for correct hyphenation is the Merriam-Webster. I was surprised to see your choices. Thanks again for your help. Pam "Stefanie Schiller [MSFT]" wrote: Hello Pam, thanks so much for your input. We really do appreciate this kind of feedback. We are aware that our hyphenators don't rock - thanks to user feedback just like yours. And while we are convinced that we have made substantial improvements at least for German users with the latest hotfix release (which is also included in Office Serive Pack 2) we fully understand that further improvements will be needed to satisfy user needs. With regards to US English hyphenation in particular, this has the addional challenge that there is no standardized rule system in place that determines where hyphenation points need to occur and where not. Instead, US English has several competing rule systems (American Heritage, Strunk & White and others). This, of course, contributes to confusion as sometimes our hyphenator (which uses the American Heritage rule system) might not be wrong after all, but simply uses a different rule system than the user might expect. This, of course, is not meant to be an excuse for the fact that our US hyphenator provides more often wrong hyphenation points than it should, even according to American Heritage rules. Given all of this, we are working on a new version of the hyphenators for a number of languages, including English and German. We are doing our best to make sure that all the user issues and concerns we are hearing about will get addressed in the new versions. So, without making promises, if you have any set of particular words that you would like to see fixed we would be very much interested in getting these. Any one word can point us to a pattern issue that by getting it fixed would help us make significant improvements. We think of linguistic development as a never ending process. Each ship cycle we have only limited time and resources to get things done - and there is a very long list of features that needs our attention. Thus, our hyphenators will never be perfect. However, we do want them to be of a quality so that our users have confidence in using them. Shipping a feature that users disregard because they deem it not useful is personally not satisfying to me. Stefanie Schiller "Robert M. Franz [RMF]" wrote: Hello Pam Pam wrote: I have found that the dictionary in general in Word 2007 allows/suggests hyphenation in the wrong places. Word 2003 had this issue with a few words but now it is a major issue. As a publisher, this is a serious problem. Has anyone found a work-around? Is Microsoft addressing this? I'm not sure they're aware. The natruallanguage-blog lists only one post dealing with hyphenation, and that's about a hotfix for German hyphenation: http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...r/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguag...ntrennung.aspx The blog post is still open for comments -- you could try it there, I suppose. FWIW, I've published a good deal of long Word documents over the years (in German and English), and I never relied on automatic hyphenation; mostly not due to lack of trust in the correct hyphenation of a word, but because Word's approach was not flexible enough/didn't produce the output we were aiming at (a lot more important in German with its many really long words, of course). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Pam,
I was wondering if you ever got a response from Stefanie regarding the hyphenation errors you've seen in Word 2007. At the very least, MS should release an SP for Word 2007 that addresses this issue. I'm sure you realize that you are not the only one who has seen this problem. Below are two links to two other forums where this problem has been discussed: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=199866 http://www.techtalkz.com/ms-office-h...phenation.html I've already posted on one of these forums (the first one), but so far I am unaware of anything being done about this problem. Are you? Tom Quote:
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