[tex-hyphen] versioning hyphenation patterns

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>
>>> No.  First, we need a TeX system which supports hyphenation pattern
>>> selection at run-time.
>> in the traditional engines one can just load multiple patterns per language
>> (had to be done for multiple font encodings anyway)
> 
> Hans - just for your info. In some languages there are exactly the
> same patterns for ec and texnansi. Despite that, ConTeXt loads
> patterns twice, while you could have loaded only ec patterns, and use
> the same "instance of patterns" for texnansi encoding. That's not true
> for every language, but for some one could spare some memory and
> loading/running time.

sure i know, but since we also need to load for instance qx (and in the 
past for czech il2) it was not worth the trouble figuring out if an 
encoding vector overlaps for a language and pattern loading is not the 
biggest mem hog anyway

Hans

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