[tex-hyphen] US English patterns in hyph-en-us.pat.txt are buggy

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Sat Jun 10 09:54:34 CEST 2017


> Do you know if there are some changes in german, too?

Yes.

> After installing TeXLive I ran some babel test files and I noticed
> there was a little difference, but I had no time to investigate yet:
> 
> -  su-per-ca-lifra-gi-li-sti-co-ex-pial-i-do-cious
> +  su-per-ca-lif-ra-gi-li-sti-co-ex-pial-i-do-cious

This is not a German word.  It's not in the list of words used for
generating hyphenation patterns.  You can thus expect that its
hyphenation is (rather) random.

I suggest that you use a German word for testing German :-)


    Werner


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