[lltx] pattern loading in luatex

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Sun Mar 6 08:49:17 CET 2011


On 03/06/2011 12:52 AM, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> schrieb Philipp Stephani:
>
>> Actually the manual (§6.4) states
>>
>> "First and foremost, there is no ‘compressed trie' involved in
>> hyphenation. The algorithm still reads patgen-generated pattern files,
>> but LuaTEX uses a finite state hash to match the patterns against the
>> word to be hyphenated."
>
> Which, once more, is a rather terse description.  I guess, the "finite
> state" (automaton) part refers to a trie with pre-calculated fall-back
> transitions.

Almost. It refers to a hash with pre-calculated fall-back transitions
(both hash and trie are words for actual data structures).

Best wishes,
Taco


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