[tex-hyphen] hyphenation group

[Hans Hagen]

Steve Peter wrote:

>> About names and structure:
>> - how to deal with changes in languages (spelling)  - how to deal 
>> with dialects
>> Maybe Steve Peter has ideas about how such things can be grouped?
>
>
> My thoughts would be to provide a generic command along the lines of
>
> \hyphenation[nl, 2004-09-01]
>
> that would load the Dutch hyphenation patterns as of September 1, 
> 2004. There should of course be sensible defaults. Dialects could be 
> handled via extension to the language code (as is done elsewhere), and 
> changes in orthography could be handled via the date.

but how is for instance frysian to be tagged? (not fr i guess) 

Hans 



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