[tex-hyphen] Customizing patterns

Javier Bezos listas at tex-tipografia.com
Sat Feb 6 10:27:47 CET 2010


Mojca:

> In such cases (if you know how to write the code), then it could be
> hooked into loadhyph-es.tex for example.

If it can be hooked in loadhyph-es.tex, then the main
problem is writing a compact "selector" in TeX.

> The most simple thing to do would be to just add another line to load
> some addational patterns inside loadhyph-es.tex. That can already be
> done easily, but it won't give you any control inside your document
> yet.

Not complete, but at least to some degree, even if regenerating
the formats could sometimes be still necessary.

> If you are thinking in that direction and come up with some clever
> solution, it would also be nice to take into account also:
> - Russian patterns with zillions of settings
> - Mongolian (that uses two different encodings)
> - dated German patterns (there already is a solution for that, but if
> there was some unique way ...)

Of course, if a generic solution is possible, this will
be the one to go.

Cheers
Javier


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