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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial Unicode MS">Sorry if this seems a silly question,
but does anyone know how to access the hyphenation patterns for different
languages within a plain TeX set up (I am increasingly using (plain) XeTeX, and
the usual \input eplain works well with that)? I normally get
on well with standard out-of-the-box TeX hyphenation, building up an exception
dictionary for different jobs depending on the foreign-language content, but I
sometimes need to typeset extended Latin, Portuguese, etc., where the exception
list can get pretty unwieldy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial Unicode MS">I've never attempted to use initex to
set up a language-specific version of TeX (or XeTeX) but I'd prefer just to
be able to say \input XXXXX at the start of a file and then select the
hyphenation rules for a given language - even in a job predominantly in
(say) Latin I'd want to switch back to English rules at any time. Ideal
would be something analogous to \input eplain - which, as you all
know, immediately gives access to the different functions without the need
for any further adjustment or setting up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial Unicode MS">None of this is covered by the
eplain manual, of course, but I'm hoping that a fellow plain TeX user will
be able to point me in the right direction at least.</FONT></DIV>
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