[tex-hyphen] hyphenation different in xelatex?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've been trying to convince the Germans to give us green light to
> do just that, but every time I get the answer from the "Trennmuster"
> group that their new patterns are not yet stable enough to be used
> in pdf(la)tex.

Hmm.  Personally, I don't object to using the new patterns.  Honestly,
I no longer can remember why there were objections at all...

> The very initial goal of the pattern conversion was to keep things
> working as they used to before the conversion just in case anyone
> would complain that the conversion broke their documents.  But
> patterns in other languages keep changing as well.

I think that versioned patterns, as already available, is the way to
go.


    Werner