[tex-hyphen] More on hyphenating Ancient Greek.

[Hans Hagen]

On 11/13/2014 12:27 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> This isn't really a Greek issue, it's more general. For an English
>> analogy, compare the results (in Plain TeX) of
>>
>>    \showhyphens{colorful}
>>    % yields "col-or-ful"
>>
>>    \showhyphens{colourful}
>>    % yields "colour-ful"; the en-US patterns don't do "col-our"
>>
>>    \showhyphens{colo[u]rful}
>>    % doesn't find any hyphens; in particular, NOT "colo[u]r-ful"
>>
>>    \lccode`[=`[  \lccode`]=`]
>>    \showhyphens{colo[u]rful}
>>    % yields "colo[u]r-ful", but other side-effects are a real risk,
>>    % so I can't recommend this as a general solution
>>
>>
>> I'm sure LuaTeX could be programmed to deal with this somehow.... :)
>
> In a parallel universe, undoubtedly !

Indeed, in context ... not too hard to hook that feature into existing 
mechanism (i might even do it when I'm in the mood) ... not that 
different from across-font hyphenation.

Hans

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