[tex-hyphen] tex-hyphen Digest, Vol 55, Issue 5

[Krzysztof Borowczyk]

Dnia 2014-06-12, czw o godzinie 18:23 +0100, Arthur Reutenauer pisze:
> > One thing I found in the error logs is the problem with QX
> > patterns/conversions:

[...]

>   Then add the line "pali hyph-pi-latn.tex" to your language.dat in the
> appropriate directory, and run
> 
> 	fmtutil --byfmt xelatex
> 
>   That compiles the format file for XeLaTeX; you won't need more as a
> first step.
> 
>   Then, using "xelatex" from the command line, you should be able to
> switch to your patterns by issuing the command \uselanguage{pali}
> 
> > I'm using the 'texi2pdf' command for the compilation of .tex files.
> 
>   Why in particular?  This is meant for texinfo documents, a system for
> writing software manuals.  It will invoke some TeX engine to produce
> PDF, but if you want to use TeX directly it's rather a hindrance.

I can't remember exactly, I switched to that some time ago ;)
When I did my MSc I used some 2 or 3 command magic (with dvi2pdf at the
end). After some time I found, that texi2pdf does the same in one
command, so I started using it.

XeLaTeX doesn't compile my current document structure:

\documentclass[a5paper,11pt,twoside,draft]{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[a5paper]{geometry}
%\usepackage[pali]{babel}
\uselanguage{pali}


it complains about the uselanguage you mentioned:
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \uselanguage 
                             
l.6 \uselanguage
                {pali}
? 

I can compile it with the \usepackage[pali]{babel}, but does it then use
the right hyphenation? Is there a way to tell it, to print what is
really used (instead of the list of loaded languages) ?

Definitely it hyphenated more than previously when it defaulted to
\language0, but I'm not so sure it used my patterns, some hyphenations
are quite wrong.

I'm using 2012 release, as that is default/unmasked in Gentoo, so maybe
that is why it can't find \uselanguage?

-- 
best regards,
Krzysztof