[tex-hyphen] hindi hyphenation

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 00:01, Karl Berry wrote:
> Mojca, Arthur,
>
> In case you're bored and looking for something to add to hyph-utf8 :) ...
> (I did not think Hindi was hyphenated.  Interesting.)

A while ago I have noticed a bunch of different languages in
OpenOffice - all exotic scripts. At least Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali,
Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Panjabi, Oriya, Marathi.

(Karl - you may check a not-too-relevant off-list mail to you on Nov 21, 2009.)

Mary: if you need immediate help, the files are attached here (all I
did was removing the first line from
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/hyph_hi_IN and
adding "\patterns{...}" to the file, I didn't change anything else, I
didn't modify any comments/licence statements and I didn't test yet).

You need add a line to language.dat or language.def that loads
loadhyph-hi-in.tex. But you would probably also need some basic
support in babel/polyglossia.

However - I guess that you were probably asking about adding official support?

Since Arthur is the special-scripts and language tag specialist, I
would prefer to leave the addition to him, but it would be nice to
figure out what to do with pattern loading in 8-bit engines. Should we
simply load all these languages with zerohyph.tex or should we split
language.dat into two files (one for 8-bit and the other one for
UTF-8) and only load those languages that really make sense in
particular engine?

Karl, thanks for forwarding.

Mojca

> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:31:16 +0100
> From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
> To: mary hanna <maryhanw at gmail.com>
> Cc: texhax at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [texhax] HIndi Hyphenation Support Query
>
>  > On 24 February 2010 mary hanna wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Hoping some one could assist on my request.  Can you please tell me
>  > if in fact the HINDI language has hyphenation patterns and secondly
>  > if so, does a HINDI Hyphen.tex file exist that works with TEX?
>
> There are no Hindi hyphenation patterns in TeX right now.  LaTeX
> prints a list of all supported hyphenation patterns to screen at the
> beginning of each run.
>
> However, there are Hindi hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc.git/tree/hyphenation/hyph_hi_IN.dic
>
> Since OpenOffice uses the same hyphenation algorithm as TeX (slightly
> modified), it's likely that you can use them.  Maybe someone more
> experienced with hyphenation patterns can tell you whether they have
> to be adapted.
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