[tex-live] language.def

[Zdenek Wagner]

2008/6/16 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>> Hi Mojca, hi Karl,
>>
>> On Mo, 16 Jun 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> language: es
>>> name: spanish
>>> synonym: espanol
>>> lefthyphenmin: 2
>>> righthyphenmin: 2
>>> file: loadhyph-es.tex
>>
>> what about the following:
>>
>> - We get rid of the language.XX.dat file
>> - replace the
>>        execute BuildLanguageDat es
>>  with
>>        execute language=es name=spanish synonyms=espanol[,...] lefthyphenmin=2 righthyphenmin=2 file=loadhyph-es.tex
>>
>>
>> (note that these executes could occur several times in one tlpsrc)
>>
>> Important would be that the
>>        language
>> tag is *unique* over *all* files.
>>
>> That way we could get rid of *loads* of language.XX.dat files and
>> updating would be the usual thing, nothing to be thought twice (change
>> here and there).
>>
>> If we extend this we could even do something similar with the formats
>> and get rid of the fmtutil.XXX.cnf files.
>>
>> Karl???
>>
>> My job would be to adapt the code generating the
>> language.dat/fmtutil.cnf lines, which is quite trivial, and add another
>> function to generate language.def lines.
>>
>> Could all be done in probably 20min.
>>
>> Your (whoever that may be) is to fill in the stuff into the tlpsrc
>> files.
>
> To me that makes sense (less files, less mess). But note that there
> are many comments under English.
>
> Can anyone explain me when/which languages should be grouped together
> apart from English?
> German should probably include old and new, Greek should include all
> variants, Serbian should include both scripts. What about
> "Czecho-Slovak" and "Norwegian"? Anything else?
>
Czech and Slovak are different languages, not just dialects. Each of
them has its own hyphenation patterns.

> Mojca
>



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