<s>
Syllabification	O
(	O
)	O
or	O
syllabication	O
(	O
)	O
,	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
hyphenation	O
,	O
is	O
the	O
separation	O
of	O
a	O
word	O
into	O
syllables	B-General_Concept
,	O
whether	O
spoken	O
,	O
written	O
or	O
signed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
written	O
separation	O
into	O
syllables	B-General_Concept
is	O
usually	O
marked	O
by	O
a	O
hyphen	O
when	O
using	O
English	O
orthography	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
syl-la-ble	O
)	O
and	O
with	O
a	O
period	O
when	O
transcribing	O
the	O
actually	O
spoken	O
syllables	B-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
International	O
Phonetic	O
Alphabet	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
presentation	O
purposes	O
,	O
typographers	O
may	O
use	O
an	O
interpunct	O
(	O
Unicode	O
character	O
U+00B7	O
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
syl·la·ble	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
special-purpose	O
"	O
hyphenation	O
point	O
"	O
(	O
U+2027	O
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
syl‧la‧ble	O
)	O
,	O
or	O
a	O
space	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
syllable	B-General_Concept
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
a	O
line	O
,	O
a	O
word	O
is	O
separated	O
in	O
writing	O
into	O
parts	O
,	O
conventionally	O
called	O
"	O
syllables	B-General_Concept
"	O
,	O
if	O
it	O
does	O
not	O
fit	O
the	O
line	O
and	O
if	O
moving	O
it	O
to	O
the	O
next	O
line	O
would	O
make	O
the	O
first	O
line	O
much	O
shorter	O
than	O
the	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Word	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
has	O
automated	O
the	O
process	O
of	O
justification	O
,	O
making	O
syllabification	O
of	O
shorter	O
words	O
often	O
unnecessary	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
some	O
languages	O
,	O
the	O
spoken	O
syllables	B-General_Concept
are	O
also	O
the	O
basis	O
of	O
syllabification	O
in	O
writing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
English	O
written	O
syllabification	O
therefore	O
deals	O
with	O
a	O
concept	O
of	O
"	O
syllable	B-General_Concept
"	O
that	O
does	O
not	O
correspond	O
to	O
the	O
linguistic	O
concept	O
of	O
a	O
phonological	O
(	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
morphological	O
)	O
unit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
hyphenation	B-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
rules	O
,	O
especially	O
one	O
codified	O
for	O
implementation	O
in	O
a	O
computer	O
program	O
,	O
that	O
decides	O
at	O
which	O
points	O
a	O
word	O
can	O
be	O
broken	O
over	O
two	O
lines	O
with	O
a	O
hyphen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
a	O
hyphenation	B-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
might	O
decide	O
that	O
impeachment	O
can	O
be	O
broken	O
as	O
impeach-ment	O
or	O
im-peachment	O
but	O
not	O
impe-achment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
the	O
algorithmic	O
approaches	O
to	O
hyphenation	O
,	O
the	O
one	O
implemented	O
in	O
the	O
TeX	B-Application
typesetting	I-Application
system	I-Application
is	O
widely	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
TeX	B-Application
's	O
original	O
hyphenation	O
patterns	O
for	O
American	O
English	O
,	O
the	O
exception	O
list	O
contains	O
only	O
14	O
words	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ports	O
of	O
the	O
TeX	B-Application
hyphenation	B-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
are	O
available	O
as	O
libraries	O
for	O
several	O
programming	O
languages	O
,	O
including	O
Haskell	B-Language
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
PostScript	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
C#	B-Application
,	O
and	O
TeX	B-Application
can	O
be	O
made	O
to	O
show	O
hyphens	O
in	O
the	O
log	O
by	O
the	O
command	O
\showhyphens	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
LaTeX	B-Application
,	O
hyphenation	O
correction	O
can	O
be	O
added	O
by	O
users	O
by	O
using	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
the	O
stock	O
\hyphenation	O
command	O
accepts	O
only	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
letters	I-Protocol
by	O
default	O
and	O
so	O
it	O
cannot	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
correct	O
hyphenation	O
for	O
words	O
with	O
non-ASCII	O
characters	O
(	O
like	O
ä	O
,	O
é	O
,	O
ç	O
)	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
very	O
common	O
in	O
almost	O
all	O
languages	O
except	O
English	O
.	O
</s>
