[tex-hyphen] New version of everything
Claudio Beccari
claudio.beccari at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 19:30:09 CEST 2014
Sorry for the previous empty message.
Dear friends,
Here I am again with new patterns. As I already mentioned in a previous
message, the ASCII patterns and the Upper Plane double caret patterns
were not adequate to hyphenate correctly all capitalized words input as
literal Greek when the first character was a precomposed vowel; the
solution was to add to all. The solution was ta add to the three
hypenation patter files some hybrid pattens where the filst vowel an
ints accents{mostly spirits, were written down with ascii characters and
the following accented charaters were in upper pllane double caret
nootation.
Actually the pattern file for monotonic Grek was just to be checked in
order to avoid forgetting something, but practically no modifications
were needed. grphyph6.tex required some corrections a not negligible
number of them. frahyph6.tex required certainly more that 1000 new
hybrid patterns. The size of the file denotes this geat amount of new
patterns.
Wile adding the new patterns I found and corrected some erros, so that
hopefully the new files are sort of OK.
Unfortunately Dimitrios wrote me that he cannot check and possibly edit
the files I wrote to help him recover from the leftover work during his
absence; he might be able to start looking at the problem we have been
discussing during the last month, possibly in the new year. This is
really unfortunate.
Gunther ha updated the ldf file; I don't know if he already uploaded it
to the CTAN. His work was simpler than that by Dimitrios, but his work
would be almost negligible if the new pattern files do not exist.
Günter, please read the post script.
At the same time I believe that the pattern files should be checked by a
competent Greek TeX user as Dimitrios. I do not want absolutely to
bypass Dimitrios. At the same tiime, may be, uploading the pattern files
and the loadhyphen files that I created, as a temporary patch, before
Dimitrios can validate them and/or possibly edit them, would not be too
bad. The ral difference might be appreciated by TeX users that typeset
in Greek, and hopefully some feedback might arrive to Dimitrios befere
he can start working on them.
I leave this question to Mojca and Dimitrios. I think I have done the
best in finding the glitch and in proposing the corrections. Actually
correcting the pattern files for me was a heavy work, bu I am glad I did
it not only to help Dimitrios, but also for learning myself new things.
Cheers
Claudio
PS - Günter I spotted another problem. On my Mac I use the polytonic
Greek driver for the keyboard; I can enter Greek text without much
difficulty with the help of the built in keyboard viewer. But...
In spite the fact that the polytonic Greek keyboard allows to enter ῤ
and ῥ, it cannot do the same with Uppercase letters, But proper names
starting with rho, in ancient Greek have the rough breath prefixed to
the capital rho; one out of all the Greek proper names is that of the
city of Rome, i.e. ῾Ρώμη -- I had to enter the rough breadth as an
isolated character, whose UTF-8 code is not transformed to the proper
LGR glyph, and the whole word is not hyphenated at all, because no
proper lccode has been set for it. You should experiment a little bit on
this issue; I experimented with other Greek proper names starting with a
capital rho and the problem is systematic. No problems if you enter the
word in an hybrid way, such as <Ρώμη.
I did no try to see what happens by inputting the precomposed glyph
"Greek capital rho with dasia" UTF-8 code: E1 BF AC. The character
palette displays it, but it is not accessible with the keyboard. The
dasia by itself has UTF-8 code E1 BF BE.
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