[comp.text.tex] Multilingual TeX

lichtin@olsen.UUCP (Martin Lichtin) (01/02/91)

How can I build a version of TeX or LaTeX which supports 
more than one hyphenation table?

Thank you for your answers.

massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) (01/08/91)

lichtin@olsen.UUCP (Martin Lichtin) writes:

>How can I build a version of TeX or LaTeX which supports 
>more than one hyphenation table?

Add the following to your plain.tex and/or lplain.tex and all the 
others ?plain*.tex after the command
	\input hyphen

%-----------cut-here-----------------------
\language=1
\input ghyphen % Another (german) hyphenation table
\language=2
\input fhyphen % Another (french) hyphenation table
% and many more of that (max. 256 different languages)

% default language is english
\language=0
%-----------cut-here-----------------------

Any more questions?
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Andreas.Mengel@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Andreas Mengel) (01/08/91)

massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) writes:
>>Add the following to your plain.tex and/or lplain.tex and all the 
>>others ?plain*.tex after the command
>>	\input hyphen

>>%-----------cut-here-----------------------
>>\language=1
>>\input ghyphen % Another (german) hyphenation table
>>\language=2
>>\input fhyphen % Another (french) hyphenation table
>>% and many more of that (max. 256 different languages)

>>% default language is english
>>\language=0
>>%-----------cut-here-----------------------

>>Any more questions?
>>-- 
Yes, where can I get ghyphen.tex ???

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massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) (01/08/91)

Andreas.Mengel@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Andreas Mengel) writes:

>>>Any more questions?
>>>-- 
>Yes, where can I get ghyphen.tex ???

Many possibilities: 'normaly' you get it with the tex distribution. Anywhere
in the directory babel.
You can ftp anonymous it from athene.uni-paderborn.de in our directory
/local/share/tex-3.0/macros
There you can find ghyphen (german) and fhyphen (french).

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jaymin@maths.tcd.ie (Jo Jaquinta) (01/10/91)

In article <42266@ut-emx.uucp> aubrey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Aubrey McIntosh) writes:
>Another aspect of supporting a language, such as Gaelic, is to make
>certain combinations of letters into ligatures.
	This must be done at font creation level and is quite simple.

>but if fonts exist with the
>grave and acute accents as ligatures, I'd like to know about them.
	I have a 90% complete half-uncial (book of kells) font if anyone
is interested. We don't have ftp access here but if there is someone who
does I will send it to them and all interested parties can copy it.
	The ligatures in it are a' e' i' o' u' which place the fadha over
the appropriate vowel.

				Jo Jaquinta
				jaymin@maths.tcd.ie