[fptex] format file with several languages?

[Jose Carlos Oliveira Santos]

Hi

	OK, now I know the answer to your other question. Take the
plain.tex file and save it under another name (plainpt.tex, for instance).
Open it with a text editor; you will find the following lines, almost at
the end:

\lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=3 % disallow x- or -xx breaks
\input hyphen

Delete the second of these two lines and add the following ones:

\input pthyph
\language1
\input ushyph
\language2
\input frhyph.tex
\language0

After this, run INITEX with this file; when it stops, type "\dump" and
ENTER; you will get a file called "plainpt.fmt". To use it with a TeX
file, the first line of this file should be

%&plainpt

and it will use the portuguese hyphenation patterns. If you want to type
some text in english you should write

{\language1 Text in english}

and if you want to write in french, you should write

{\language2 Texte en fran\c cais}

	I hope that this helps

	José Carlos Santos