[tex-hyphen] ptex and language.def

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:54, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> > There are still files there, namely in
>> >        texmf-dist/tex/ptexgeneric/hyphen/
>> > there are
>> >        grahyph5.tex  grmhyph5.tex  grphyph5.tex  ibyhyph.tex
>> > So I didn't do that for now.
>>
>> They are not needed any more.
>
> But they are loaded, should I remove them?

They are loaded until you remove the files. After the files are
removed, their copy with the same name will be loaded instead.

>> As already explained, these are literal copies of four other files
>> with the same name. The reason why they are there is because platex
>> was loading Greek patterns unconditionally and it wasn't practical to
>> depend on hyphen-greek being installed as a prerequisite for pTeX.
>
> But this is still the case, isn't it???? SO we should *NOT* remove them.

No, now that platex uses language.dat Greek patterns are not
unconditionally loaded any more. They are only loaded if hyphen-greek
(ancientgreek) is installed. And when hyphen-greek is installed, the
other patterns are present.

Mojca