[luatex] get the hyphenation patterns matching a word

[Stephan Hennig]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb:
> Stephan Hennig wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Thanks for making this clear.


> 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)

Are there any plans to replace libhnj by a pure Lua implementation?  As 
long as hyphenation is hard-coded in C, it remains a black box for the 
LuaTeX user.  As far as I understand it, there is no easy way to monitor 
the hyphenation process other than writing your own hyphenation module, 
messing with nodes, and hook that into the hyphenate() callback. :(


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

That's what I'm doing, currently (outside luatex).

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig