[tex-hyphen] german hyphenation patterns

[Stephan Hennig]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb:

> I may be missing something here, but couldn't you use opatgen
> (a patlib frontend) and do the whole process in unicode?
> 
> See http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xantos/patlib/

Are patterns generated by patlib superior to patgen (in terms of overall
size, number of needed levels, etc.) or is it merely patgen implemented
as a library?  I took a glance at Antoš' thesis, and found

> Design goal 7 Efficiency. The pattern generator—dealing with large
> data—should be efficient. But we should not optimize the code paying
> with concessions to the design.

(page 20) and

> [Thai patterns] We are able to cover 98.4% of word boundaries with
> error 0.05% in mere four levels.

(page 44), but no comparison to patgen.

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig