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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #000000;">Dear Mojca<br /></span></p>
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> The file loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex loads the patterns created by WL
<p style="margin: 0px;">> because no other Swiss German patterns exist anyway (or rather: never</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> existed which doesn't put any burden on the need to keep</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> backward-reproducibility).</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">> By loading "gswiss-x-latest" or whatever you call it, you would only</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> gain anything if you would actually manually install the very latest</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> version of the patterns yourself and manually changed language.dat. By</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> having the latest version of dehyph-exptl installed as it is shipped</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> by TeX Live, you wouldn't gain anything at all by using</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> call-it-whatever-you-like-swiss-german other than the already</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">> installed "swissgerman".</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">I see. Thanks for the explanation. Maybe this should be clarified in the dehyph-exptl manual. And it should be pointed out that gswiss-x-latest cannot be loaded via hyphsubst out of the box (i.e., without editing language.dat before). I mean, after reading this manual, people might want to try</p>
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<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">\usepackage[german=gswiss-x-latest]{hyphsubst}</p>
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<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">(or would it make sense to set up gswiss-x-latest as an alias to swissgerman, just to avoid such confusions?)</p>
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> So if you need special support for Swiss German, you might need
<p style="margin: 0px;">> to write one yourself.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Yes, this is actually the plan (also for polyglossia) and the reason why I have asked about the status of these patterns.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Regards</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Jürgen</p>
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