[tex-hyphen] german hyphenation patterns

[Jonathan Kew]

On 10 Jun 2008, at 9:23 am, Stephan Hennig wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec schrieb:
>>
>> (Babel doesn't work in XeTeX, polyglossia is babel replacement.)
>
> Ah, didn't know that.

That's not entirely true, I believe. AFAIK Babel works OK in xelatex  
for many languages, particularly the Latin-script ones, but becomes  
more problematic once we get into non-Latin scripts.

Polyglossia is intended to be a replacement (or at least the  
beginnings of one), designed for the Unicode world, but for the time  
being there are plenty of xelatex users using Babel successfully.

JK