About...

  1. hyph-​n.com
  2. KING­desk web design
  3. the hyphen­ation algorithm

hyph-n.com

Browser sup­port for hyphen­ation has grown sig­nif­i­cantly over the past few years. Major search engines have recently adjusted their search algo­rithms to rec­og­nize and index hyphen­ated text. But KING­desk web design found no effi­cient means to hyphen­ate text for pub­lish­ing on the web. Con­se­quently, we have devel­oped hyph-​n.com and the wp-​Hyphenate Word­Press plugin to pro­vide for this need.

KINGdesk web design

KING­desk is a small web design con­sul­tancy in San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia. We can help your orga­ni­za­tion develop and imple­ment online strate­gies. We pub­lish free arti­cles fea­tur­ing best prac­tices for web design. If you desire per­son­al­ized con­sul­ta­tion or web design ser­vices, please contact us.

the hyphenation algorithm

The hyphen­ation algo­rithm used by hyph-​n.com is based on the 1983 Stan­ford Ph.D. thesis of pro­fes­sor Frank Liang: Word Hy-​phen-​a-​tion by Com-​puter. Liang's PatGen algo­rithm was updated in 1991 by Peter Bre­it­en­lohner. The result­ing algo­rithm finds 90% of all allowed hyphen­ation points iden­ti­fied in the Webster's Unabridged Dic­tio­nary with a 0% error rate.