[tex-hyphen] naming Swiss German hyphenation patterns

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Thu Jul 24 14:58:22 CEST 2008


Mojca Miklavec schrieb:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Stephan Hennig wrote:
>>
>> (i) For XeTeX patterns?
>>
> I've seen the gsw language tag, but personally I would prefer
> 
> de-ch-1901
> de-ch-1996
> 
> (CH should normally be uppercase, but due to occasional problems in
> casing TeX files, lowercase is preferred).

Thanks.


>> gswiss/ngswiss
>> germansw/ngermansw
>> germanch/ngermanch
> 
> (All of them seem a bit too messy to me. I would suggest slightly
> longer names, but I guess that everything connected to
> babel/polyglossia needs a bit of reworking.)

OK.  Swiss German language support should slightly differ from German
language support, so this issue will be raised again in the future.

For now, we'll probably chose one of the three alternatives listed above
augmented by -x-<date>.  Is that OK?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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