[tex-live] Organization of language collections

[Dan Luecking]

On May 15, 2013, at 22:07:51 CEST, Philip TAYLOR 
<mailto:tex-live%40tug.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Btex-live%5D%20Organization%20of%20language%20collections&In-Reply-To=%3C5193EB17.1030509%40Rhul.Ac.Uk%3E>P.Taylor 
at Rhul.Ac.Uk wrote:


> > My preferred organization would be into three collections for
> > each language (or group of languages):
> >   1) typesetting/caption support (e.g., cstex, babel, german.sty),
> >   2) hyphenation,
> >   3) documentation written in the language(s).
> > An argument can be made for combining 1 and 2, but it seems to
> > me that 3 is almost orthogonal to the other two.
>
>I do not see how you could usefully separate 1 & 2
>(how can you typeset unless you know how to hyphenate ?),
>but (3) is completely unrelated.  A category error, IMHO.

Well clearly 1 should imly 2, but I tried to explain that I
need mostly only hyphenation and so would like to install 2
without 1, at least for most languages.

Dan


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html