[luatex] get the hyphenation patterns matching a word

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Feb 23 08:42:32 CET 2010


Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any way to get the hyphenation patterns matching a word handed 
> on a silver platter by luatex?  Seeing callback hyphenate() and function 
> lang.hyphenate() as the only related API parts, I assume the answer is no.

No. The best luatex can do is give you all the patterns for a language
as a space-delimited string:

    <string> s = lang.patterns(<number> l)

but you will have to extract the ones that fit a particular word
yourself.

Best wishes,
Taco


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