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While reading the babel-catalan documentation i noticed this
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'">To
improve hyphenation we give the <font color="#ff0000">grave</font>
character (</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMTT10'">’</span><span style="font-size:
10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'">) a non-zero lower case
code; when we do that T</span><span style="font-size:
10.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR10'; vertical-align:
-2.000000pt">E</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMR10'">X will find more breakpoints in
words that contain this
character in its rˆole as apostrophe.<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family:
'CMR7'">37 </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMTT9'">\addto\extrascatalan{%<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family:
'CMR7'">38 </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMTT9'">\lccode‘’=‘’}<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family:
'CMR7'">39 </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMTT9'">\addto\noextrascatalan{%<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 7.000000pt; font-family:
'CMR7'">40 </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt;
font-family: 'CMTT9'">\lccode‘’=0}
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1) The <font color="#ff0000">grave</font> word should be repalced
by acute. <br>
2) Apparently the code snippet reported in the seocnd part of the
copied snippet from babel-catalan.pdf is the cause of the remarked
bug. May be together with the lefthyphenmin=2 setting for the
language<br>
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Apparently the bug vanishes if the activeacute option is selected,
but with ths option in force the apostrophe should befollwed by an
empty group (note 2 of the documentation) because the active single
quote character is used to set the acute accent over the following
vowel.<br>
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Moreover the babel catalan.ldf was last revised on 2005/03/29,
therefore it not up to date with the LICR character representation
that is being in force for the past four years; the arguments used
inthe documentation for saving the different encodings from OT1 vs
T1 and Type1 do not aply anymore. <br>
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The obvious suggestion would be to upgrade catalan.ldf and its
documentation.<br>
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This is my analysis; it might be wrong, because I am not a Catalan
writer and speaker, I can just read it. <br>
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Claudio<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/04/2021 12:02, J. Delgado wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear <a href="http://tug.org" moz-do-not-send="true">tug.org</a>
managers.</div>
following a recommendation from a tex.stackexchange user, I
would like to report a bad behavior of hyphenation in Catalan
using babel. See:
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<div><a
href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/591786/wrong-hyphenation-after-apostrophe-in-catalan"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/591786/wrong-hyphenation-after-apostrophe-in-catalan</a><br>
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<div>(I don't know whether this is due to a bug or to improper
use on my part.)<br>
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Best,<br>
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Jordi Delgado<br>
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