[tex-hyphen] Names of files in OFFO

Javier Bezos listas at tex-tipografia.com
Thu Mar 17 15:11:31 CET 2016


 > The babel code certainly push to think in this way. But imho nothing
 > prevents a language.ldf author to setup  internally three
 > (independant) languages, e.g. classiclatin, medievallatin,
 > modernlatin,

In fact, german, austrian and swissgerman have been defined as
separated languages (even if defined in a single file) for ages.
If variants are needed, this is the way to go.

 > But as this questions doesn't affect only latin but other languages
 > with modifiers too it should be perhaps better be handled by babel
 > in some way.

Modifiers are mainly intended for readjustmens in a variant
which are considered global, as well as settings which must
be known somwhow when the ldf is loaded.

Javier



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