[tex-hyphen] More with the patterns

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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

Exactly that's the point. And that's what has happened with pinjin for
example (the author has recently changed the way patterns are encoded,
and without notifying Jonathan that means that patterns are basically
broken, either broken in the sense of "do not work as they should" or
"formats do not generate at all").

Mojca