[tex-hyphen] language tag for Serbian (Serbo-Croatian?) patterns

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Wed Jul 20 18:12:25 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:04:58PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>   Two issues here:

  Oh yes, and

  3. The patterns for Serbian are actually not used at all in hyph-utf8,
since experiments conducted by Nikola Lečić tended to prove that the
ones for Serbo-Croatian did a much better job of hyphenating Serbian
(for both scripts).  The different TeX distributions thus load the
patterns for Serbo-Croatian when asked for Serbian, as can be seen in
loadhyph-sr-cyrl.tex and loadhyph-sr-latn.tex.  We still ship the
Serbian patterns in hyph-utf8, as taking them out would only render the
situation even more confusing ("Why are there patterns for Serbian
outside of hyph-utf8, and the package only ships patterns for
Serbo-Croatian?").

	Arthur


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