[tex-hyphen] Names of files in OFFO

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Fri Mar 11 14:24:27 CET 2016


	Claudio,

  I’m trying to get an accurate view of the situation of Latin as it is
currently implemented in the TeX world.  From what I can observe, there
are currently three options:

  * The first one to be implemented, called “Modern Latin”, makes the
    distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the digraphs “ae” and “oe”,
    and is hyphenated using a set of 335 patterns that break words
    according to phonetics;

  * There is also one called “Medieval Latin” that does not make the
    distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the ligated characters “æ“ and
    “œ”, and is hyphenated using a set of 335 patterns that break words
    according to phonetics;

  * Finally, there is one called “Classical Latin” that does not make
    the distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the digraphs “ae” and
    “oe”, and is hyphenated using a set of 740 patterns that break words
    according to etymology.

  By “making the distinction” I mean that ‘u’ and ‘v’ are considered
different letters in the variant of Latin you call modern, but not in
the other two, where the phonemes /u/ and /v/ use the same character,
written <u> in lowercase and <V> in uppercase.

  Is that correct?

	Arthur


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