[tex-live] Outstanding questions

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2013-09-19 at 11:57:56 +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:

 > As often happens, some of the questions asked during my previous
 > thread got lost in the noise, so I repeat them here as I am quite
 > keen to get answers :
 > 
 > 
 > > 0) [Context: Hebrew] So all that we need is LHM=3, RHM=3, and 
 > > patterns that permit hyphenation between all possible pairs of Hebrew
 > > characters that represent letters; should I therefore move this part
 > > of the discussion to the TeX-Hyphen list ?
 > 
 > 
 > > 1) If a user installs TeX Live 2013 specifying
 > > 
 > >	Collections: all; packages: all; schemes: all
 > > 
 > > how does he or she ask the system for which languages
 > > \lang@<language> is defined ?
 > 
 > 
 > > 2) I would like to be able to install full support for Plain TeX (all
 > > languages, all fonts, etc), but zero support for other formats.  What
 > > is the correct combination of Collections/packages/schemes to
 > > accomplish this, please ? 
 > 
 > 
 > > 3) Given that I am processing 16th-C polytonic Greek, should I be 
 > > using \uselanguage {ancientgreek} rather than \uselanguage {greek}, 
 > > and if so, is it possible to summarise the difference(s) between
 > > the two sets of patterns ?

Hi Phil,
if there's nobody on this list who can answer your questions it's
probably best to ask on the texhax list.  People on this list have TeX
Live in mind rather than critical editions.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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