[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation

[Will Robertson]

On 28 Mar 2005, at 5:06 PM, Yves Codet wrote:
> Le 28 mars 05, à 08:52, Will Robertson a écrit :
>> Maybe you should submit your hyphenation patterns to CTAN (it's real 
>> easy, just add a note that it probably won't work for anything 
>> besides XeTeX for now) and then tell Gerben, rather than JK, to 
>> include it...
>
> ... they're only necessary for XeTeX users, since hyphenation is 
> handled by a preprocessor in standard TeX packages. Users of standard 
> TeX will never need such patterns. It's the same for all Indian 
> scripts, and perhaps for other languages I don't know. I thought that 
> XeTeX-specific hyphenation patterns should be distributed with XeTeX, 
> but maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?

Okay, I can see your point. I guess I'm not really the one to be asking.
Maybe Ross [as the "highest ranking" :) member of the list, as far as I 
know] knows more about such things?

Bear in mind that Aleph and exTeX users are able (not to say that they 
actually *are*) to typeset   unicode input files in a variety of ways, 
so they too may be interested in such hyphenation patterns. (And all 
other other support files we happen to produce, as well. Except 
fontspec, which is firmly rooted in XeTeX for now.)

Will