[tex-hyphen] More with the patterns

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Yes, ugly for two reasons. The first reason is the one that you
> mention - XeTeX has to know how it interpret the convention. But the
> second reason is worse. It has to disable everything that the file is
> doing, only load the patterns and try to ignore everything else
> without any side effect.

and in addition hope that thsi si still valid after an updat eof the 
patterns (which may introduce new conflicting commands, or have 
assumptions of a changed name without notifying those responsible for 
embedding them ...) .. all this (and worse, like "quit loading if this 
is not latex" features) has happened and that's what this project wants 
to avoid

> - generic conversion file from UTF-8 to T1 encoding (that could be
> part of pattern loader, but lots of patterns need the same conversion)

probably present in most macro packages anyway

Hans

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