[tex-hyphen] german hyphenation patterns
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Sat Jun 7 22:24:44 CEST 2008
> I've forwaded communication on tex-hyphen to David.
Thanks. I wrote another email to him recently, but got no reponse.
> -- you can have better / smaller patterns closer to the optimal ones
> by good setting of [o]patgen parameters (in my experience, four
> levels are enough, having higher numbers for "exceptions"). current
> 8 levels are definitely too much. have you tried setting from my
> papers for Czech/Slovak? I can help with that.
I did a lot of experiments, and the values I currently use for German
work quite fine for unknown words (note that the word list from the
git repository is hyphenated without errors).
Werner
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