[fptex] format file with several languages?

[Jose Carlos Oliveira Santos]

Hi

	Thanks for the information that you sent. I had never heard about
"bplain".
	Best regards

	José Carlos Santos

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> Jose Olivares <ghz@servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> > Could anybody please explain to me how to create a tex.fmt and a latex.fmt
> > with hyphenation patterns for english, spanish and portuguese?
> 
> Part of this question was already answered. tex.fmt has only USEnglish 
> patterns. It is canonical Plain format by D.E. Knuth.
> 
> Jose Carlos Oliveira Santos <jcsantos@fc.up.pt> wrote:
> > 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; ... etc.
> 
> For Plain with other patterns loaded, try rather bplain:
> 1. Please modify language.dat, as was already explained, in the same
>    manner as for latex. Note: you should modify the `active' copy of 
>    that file, but it is so simple to find it: 
>       kpsewhich language.dat 
>    will show where it is
> 2. run:
>      fmtutil --byfmt=bplain --dolinks
> That's all! You can run `bplain file.tex' with your patterns.
> The more interesting question is how your input can be interpreted
> by such a format. Perhaps you can try somemething like:
> 
> %& --translate-file=il1-t1
> in *the first line* of your file, so you can write your documents
> in a *natural* way (iso8859-1, a.k.a. iso latin1), and it will be translated
> into T1 (Cork) encoding used internaly by TeX with EC fonts. 
> But how one can switch to that encoding in (b)Plain? That's the question...
> Note, that without special macros which I do not know, input with
> \~n, \'a, \^a etc. will destroy completely the hyphenation.
> Some can answer: use better latex... ;-) But it is not serious answer,
> if you prefer using Plain.
> 
> Staszek Wawrykiewicz
> email: staw@gust.org.pl
> 
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