[tex-hyphen] german hyphenation patterns

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Tue Jun 10 10:59:08 CEST 2008


Stephan Hennig schrieb:

> The command-line instructions essentially discuss

I forgot

* where to copy pattern files
   - <local texmf tree>/tex/generic/hyphen/
* how to refresh the file name database
[$] initexmf --update-fndb


> * how to locate or create a copy of language.dat in a local texmf tree,
[$] findtexmf language.dat

> * how to modify language.dat
>    - Remove existing lines containing '=[n]german-x-latest'.
>    - Add the four lines shown below.
> * how to dump new format files.
[$] initexmf --dump

How do the MiKTeX commands marked [$] translate to TeX Live?

What is the path to a local texmf tree that can be suggested for TeX Live?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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