[tex-hyphen] Cannot find working German hyphenation patterns

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu Jun 11 10:26:41 CEST 2009


Vladimirs Gluskovs wrote:
> Dear Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer,
> 
> I have copied fop-hyph.jar to {fop}/build directory, as it is documented 
> in Installation instruction.
> 
> Then I try to run FOP to format document  containing one  <fo:block>  of 
> German text and following attributes:
> 
>         hyphenate="true" 
>         language="de" 
>         white-space-collapse="true" 
> 
>         hyphenation-character="-"
>         hyphenation-remain-character-count="2"
>         hyphenation-push-character-count="2"
> 
> I get messages:
> 
> Error building hyphenation tree for language de
> Couldn't find hyphenation pattern de

this is probably more related to fop than to the patterns (these 
patterns are meant for tex, so you might need to manipulate them a bit 
in order to work with fop)

Hans


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