[tex-live] language.def

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> 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.

If a file similar to the one attached would be of any help, I can
provide it together with (new) patterns. One could drop all the
language.foo.dat files then, right?

Mojca
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