[tex-hyphen] Hyphenation in Albanian

[Joan Jani]

I would like to thank Claudio, Mojca and Arthur for their replies.

I apologies but I had been not subscribed  at the mailing list so I did 
not receive Claudio's email yesterday.

Now everything is ok and for sure I will continue to work in this issue 
for the coming days.

My to-do list for coming days will be:

     1.  Find a detailed grammatically theory of hyphenation in Albania. 
Since I am not a linguist, I have to ask help from a friend of mine, who 
is an expert in this filed.

     2. Translate the rules in english and put the document at public 
domain using github.

     3. Read the documentation wich Claudio, Mojca and Arthur recomend.

     4. Create some patterns and test  if are working correctly.

I hope that this would be the begging of adding something that later

My personal email is igiann at hotmail.com.

I would like to thank you all again for your warm welcoming.

Kind regards.

Joan Jani
On 15/6/20 11:05 π.μ., Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Off-list.
>
> Claudio Beccari already wrote a good answer.
>
> We don't really have a team actively working on creating new patterns
> for new languages, but there are a bunch of experts (Claudio being
> among them). We are mostly collecting existing patterns and making
> sure that they stay in consistent shape. So by far the best way to get
> the patterns working would be to try to create them yourself, or find
> someone to help you. This may include people on the list, but you need
> to provide some faithful sources, grammar rules, dictionaries etc.
>
> There are two orthogonal ways to achieve the goal:
> - assemble a list of hyphenated words from a dictionary and run patgen
> (or one of its rewrites, we can help you with that)
> - come up with a set of clear rules for hyphenation (like: always
> hyphenate after letter 'a', never hyphenate between these letter
> pairs, ...) and write hyphenation patterns manually
>
> I would suggest you to read
>      https://tug.org/docs/liang/liang-thesis.pdf
>
> Mojca
>
> PS: Please don't expect an answer to a private mail, I've been
> struggling recently to find time to answer emails. But you can
> continue the discussion on the list, you just need to provide more
> information, try to understand how hyphenation patterns work (read the
> above or maybe find some BachoTeX talks from Arthur Reutenauer).
>
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 19:22, Joan Jani<j.jani at fimif.edu.al>  wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> I am a latex user for more than 15 years (I wrote my first lab report in latex back in 2004).
>>
>> Since there is no hyphenation patterns for Albanian i get always the message bellow:
>>
>> -- No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for (babel) the language 'Albanian' into the format.
>>
>> I want to participate in your group helping to create this hyphenation pattern.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Joan Jani