[tex-live] new babel in TL

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Given a high chance that something could go wrong at our side, I would
>     prefer to release the promised hyph-utf8 based on the old babel and a
>     new version based on the new babel a few days later.
>
> Sorry, but I am very surprised to hear there is any interaction at all
> between hyph-utf8 and babel.  What are you referring to?

texmf-dist/tex/luatex/hyph-utf8/hyphen.cfg

(http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/luatex/hyph-utf8/)

> If you just mean making sure the names match between them: that isn't an
> immediate goal and we shouldn't delay anything for that reason.

No, it's not about matching names, but about contents. I'm not yet
sure what functionality exactly has been changed in Babel recently.
The luatex-specific part of the package which takes care of loading
patterns on demand (originally contributed by Elie, Manuel, Khaled) is
a literal copy of hyphen.cfg from Babel with a few minor patched
applied. Ideally we should be able to get rid of hyphen.cfg before TL
release. If not, the contents should at least be brought up to date.

> Please make the hyph-utf8 release asap.

I uploaded a new version to CTAN now.

But please don't add Thai patterns as a new TL package yet as it would
be nice to get some testing first. I'm mostly confused about the way
that the patterns should be used and the way they are supposed to
interact with ICU word splitting built into XeTeX and how they work in
pdfTeX and LuaTeX at all.

Mojca