[tex-hyphen] Serbian (Serbo-Croation) hyphenation patterns.

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:16:13AM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > But we're modifying + renaming all of them now, so shhyph would not be
> > used at all, so it makes no sense to try to modify & include it now.
> > Let's focus on new patterns instead.
> 
>   Actually, I'd say it makes more sense to keep referring to Dejan's
> patterns as Serbocroatian, since it's really the language they were
> designed for, and to use them as a basis for today's "national"
> languages where specific patterns are missing, that is, Serbian and
> Bosnian.  This for the Latin spelling.  As for Cyrillic, it would even
> make sense to me if we created Serbocroatian patterns by converting
> Dejan's patterns -- the differences between the latter and srhyphc.tex
> seem really tiny.  But then, let's not be too zealous.

I believe that srhyphc actually was derived from shhyphl, but I
never checked the result. As I have the original sources in which
all sounds are represented with single characters, it's easy to
produce the cyrillics.

>   In any case, we really need Dejan to make his patterns under a free
> license (hint, hint :-)

:)

> > I'm pretty sure that if we call the patterns Serbocroatian now, some
> > people will pop up at some time complaining that the language doesn't
> > exist any more and they will try to convince Karl to rename them. A
> > similar situation with "Norwegian".
> 
>   If so, we could ask such poeple how they feel about the Ancient Greek
> patterns :-)
> 
>   (I don't know if there were hyphenation rules in Vedic Sanskrit, but
> I'm sure that if there are, pattern files will be written for TeX
> someday -- for the moment there are no patterns for Classical Sanskrit,
> let alone Vedic).
> 
> 	Arthur
> 

Cheers,

Dejan