hyphenating "rendszervaltozas"

Jolanta Davis jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Oct 1 15:39:53 UTC 2003


Thank you very much. Yes, because this is a fairly long word I need to know
how to break it up in text to avoid a very loose line in text above.
Jolanta

At 10:24 AM 9/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>If the word needs to be broken up for typesetting reasons - then I vote
>for rendszer-valtozas. Looked at a Hungarian book at hand, it seems that
>there's a trend to avoid breaking up words, or, if necessary keep the
>component words whole. 2 cents worth.
>
>Zuzana Nagy
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>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> > Possibly Mrs. Davis is thinking about the need to break the word
> > at the end of a line. Mrs. Nagy is a better authority than I
> > am, but isn't it true that the word could be broken rend-
> > szervaltozas, or else rendszer-
> > valtozas, or alternatively rendszerval-
> > tozas, or perhaps also rendszervalto-
> > zas?
> > You'll need to put the accent marks in: acute on a in ...val...,
> > acute on a in ...zas.
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> > Department of Linguistics
> > Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> > Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
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> > tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> > fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> > e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Zuzana Nagy wrote:
> >
> > > No hyphen, one word.
> > >
> > > Zuzana
> > > ------
> > > Zuzana Nagy
> > > Harvard College Library
> > > Technical Services - CSS        E-MAIL: nagy at fas.harvard.edu
> > > 625 Massachusetts Ave.          TEL.: 617.384-7173
> > > Cambridge, MA 02139-3301        FAX:  617.384-7170
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Jolanta Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do we have any Hungarian speakers here? Could someone please tell
> me how
> > > > "rendszervaltozas" is hyphenated?
> > > > thanks
> > > > Jolanta
> > > >
> > > > Jolanta M. Davis
> > > > AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
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