[tex-live] Strange license of ukhyphen

[Robin Fairbairns]

> David Kastrup wrote:
> > "carefully check the results" is a bit of a toughy because 80% of
> > people get a significant number of British hyphenation patterns wrong
> > on first attempt.
>
> but to counter that, we know that 75% of statistics
> quoted on the texlive lists are not based on any data.

;-)

> are you saying the ukhyphen.tex is not good, or that
> most people don't actually know UK hyphenation rules?

the _rules_ are so perverse that simply knowing them isn't enough.  i
know the rules, but because of gaps in my classical education (i
didn't do classical greek at school) i can never be entirely sure of a
guess at hyphenation.

which is why i keep an oxford dictionary of word division in my desk
at work.  (note, i don't keep one at home...)

ukhyphen.tex isn't bad; could be made to perform better if we were
allowed to publish exception lists, but phil (iirc) won't have that.

r

"compatibility is the process of repeating other peoples' mistakes"
                                                 david wheeler, c.1968