[tex-hyphen] Adding turkmen hyphenation and language definition to babel

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 20:14, Nazar Annagurban wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I found the mailing-list through google. I'd like to ask you about adding a
> new hyphenation language. I have prepared the hyphenation patterns for the
> turkmen language (Turkmenistan) and tested it using the java implementation
> of Frank Liangs algorithm. However, I'd like to test that the charset (our
> special character that are not in latin1) works correctly under tex (latex)
> before I submit it. I looked through the Babel files to find the file
> containing language definition to hyphen patterns binding, but I couldn't
> find it. If you guys could give me some directions? Or anyway I could latex
> use my patterns for hyphenating.
>
> (Turkmenistan hasn't had much latex exposure, but I'm using it to prepare
> digital versions of older books, and maybe more people will start using it
> seeing the quality of the result)

Hello,

It is very nice to see new contributors.

It is quite possible that nobody has written Babel support for you
language yet. From what I can read, people might use both Latin and
Cyrillic script (as well as Arabic), so you might want to keep that in
mind when writing support, so that it would be easy enough to plug in
the other script if one would need or request it in future.

Maybe you could also contact François Charette for help with
Polyglossia or the author of Babel if you need help. To start with
just take a file *.ldf and try to adapt it for your language.

Independent of that ... feel free to send the patterns (you can send
them off-list).

Mojca