[tex-live] language.def

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:51:38PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On So, 15 Jun 2008, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     3) The supplied language.def loads only the US English hyphenation  
> >     patterns. Would it be possible to include other hyphenation patterns  
> >     by default (as is done with language.dat)?
> > 
> > Clearly this is the intent, but it takes a lot of effort to keep
> > language.dat, fmtutil.cnf, updmap.cfg in sync now.  I'm scared to try to
> > add another file of the same ilk.
> 
> There is one question with this: Do we have *any* chance to
> auto-generate these lines from what is present in 
> 	Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.*.dat
> ??

No.

language.def:
% language, patterns file, exceptions file, left- and right-hyphen minima

language.dat:
% language, patterns file
% dialect

But it would be easily possible to have a data structure as superset:
% language, patterns file, exceptions file, left- and right-hyphen minima
% dialect

Then both language.def and language.dat could be generated easily.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>