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I keep noticing more and more cases where the syllable “-tion(s)-” is split in the middle, in words like “Informati-onsveranstaltung”, including LaTeX text processing software and teletext of ARD television who do so.

In elementary school [in Germany!] we learned (at the end of the 80s, before any form of spelling reform) that one should separate syllables as one would “clap” words. In the above case, I feel that would be “In-for-ma-tions-ver-an-stal-tung”, but a syllabification in the middle of “-tion(s)-” (when pronounced tsjons) is wrong (where it would be okay in cases pronounced zihohn, like in “Na-ti-o-nen”).

As current way of using German (as proposed by the Conference of Ministers of Education), is a syllabification in the middle of “-tion(s)-” (when pronounced tsjons) correct or wrong?

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Duden permits these hyphenation positions:

In|for|ma|ti|ons|ver|an|stal|tung

And among the strong move towards flexibility by the orthography revision, there is a new rule, according to that single vocals may be hyphenated, as long as no component boundary in compound words is affected, so nati-onal as well as natio-nal are permitted. I found only a non-authoritative source online Focus online. The general Duden hyphenation page seems not very exhaustive.

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  • What most dictionaries ignore and most hyphenation software doesn't even know, (and Latex with its pure algorithmic hyphenation is especially bad at this) is that not all potential places for a hyphen are equally suitable - Informations-veranstaltung would in this special case be a way better hyphenation with not much more compromise for inter-word space. Composites should preferrably be split into their original components, if at all possible. – tofro Apr 03 '22 at 18:10
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    Software will have to be told about theses preferred hyphenation points, of course, should it become relevant in your text. Conditional hyphenation exists … – Ingmar Apr 04 '22 at 12:09