[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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