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

[Krzysztof Borowczyk]

Dnia 2014-06-12, czw o godzinie 20:33 +0200, Krzysztof Borowczyk pisze:
> 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?
> 

Also, that was with the \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} commented out, it
refuses to parse the text:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ñcam not set up for use with
LaTeX

I tried both packages: utf8x and utf8.
I suppose there is other way to handle this with XeLaTeX?

-- 
best regards,
Krzysztof Borowczyk