I just discovered that the standard hyphenation patterns in TeX do not allow the word traitor to be hyphenated trai-tor. Wtf? Is that really supposed to be the case?
I mean, plenty of traitors have been cut in half throughout history
mtxrun --script patterns --hyphenate --language=gb traitor
hyphenator |
hyphenator | . t r a i t o r . . t r a i t o r .
hyphenator | 0t0r2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
hyphenator | 2a0i2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
hyphenator | 0t1o0r0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0
hyphenator | .0t0r2a0i2t1o0r0. . t r a i t-o r .
hyphenator |
mtx-patterns | gb 1 3 : traitor : traitor
mtxrun --script patterns --hyphenate --language=us traitor
hyphenator |
hyphenator | . t r a i t o r . . t r a i t o r .
hyphenator | 1t0r0a0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
hyphenator | 0t0r0a0i3t0o0r1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1
hyphenator | 0r2a0i0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1
hyphenator | 0a0i2 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1
hyphenator | 1t0o0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1
hyphenator | .1t0r2a0i3t0o0r1. . t r a i-t o r-.
hyphenator |
mtx-patterns | us 1 3 : traitor : trai-tor
Well, “english” means American in TeX, right? When I do the following, I get that traitor has no allowed hyphenation points: \documentclass[english]{article}
@DavidCarlisle Perhaps “traitor” cannot be cut in two in American English because traitors aren’t decapitated there anymore. They get pardoned by the President instead
@cfr What's the point of them if you don't get to see them? Ours are all electronic too, which mainly means that the response rate is dismal, so they become increasing useless (apart from all the problems that such things have generally).
@AlanMunn beats me. it wasn't easy to see them when they were paper. in the end, they got used to me asking for copies, though it took a while. maybe there is some theoretical access I've not found. but they don't seem to think of them as something the person being evaluated has any interest in reading.
@AlanMunn if you think of teaching evaluations as a way for managers to monitor employees, rather than a way to improve teaching, then the people teaching have no business reading the evaluations.
@AlanMunn now they are eliminating entire subjects anyhow: modern langs & translation, music, ancient history, religious studies/theology .... so they will have shiny new buildings they can't afford, but I have no idea who is going to do what inside them ....
