I have compiled a Portuguese hyphenation table for TeX. It turned out to be a rather short table (compared to the one for English) because Portuguese has very concise rules for hyphenation. I'd like to make this table public and freely distributed. Even included in the distribution tapes. I have extensively tested it (with patgen) and haven't found any erroneous hyphenation. It does miss some hyphens but they are very very few. It certainly does not hyphenate a word beyond an accent or a cedilla, but that's the way TeX handles hyphenation of words with intervening macros (cf. Appendix H of The TeXbook). Pedro J. de Rezende rezende@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu College of Computer Science (617) 437-2078 Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue Boston MA 02115