[comp.text.tex] TeX3.0 Questions: 8bit/\language

massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) (11/12/90)

I've installed TeX3.0 now on our system. But I couldn't read anywhere about
the changes. I heard about the \language command to change hyphenation tables,
but how have I to include different hyphenation tables in plain.tex?

And I heard about something about 8 bit. What can I do with it?

Could somebody please explain that in a FEW words.

Thanx


   Michael Janich, Uni Paderborn, United Germany


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   Michael Janich, Uni Paderborn, United Germany

eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (11/13/90)

massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) writes:

>I've installed TeX3.0 now on our system. But I couldn't read anywhere about
>the changes. 
Changes have been incorporated in the new editions of the TeX book.
Also Tugboat gives the incremental changes between versions.
> I heard about the \language command to change hyphenation tables,
>but how have I to include different hyphenation tables in plain.tex?
Hyphenation tables can only be incorporated when you are running
IniTeX, so you could for instance doing that by \input-ing 
different hyphen.tex files. Pattersn read hold for the language
that is the current value of \langauge.

>And I heard about something about 8 bit. What can I do with it?
Not much. You can now have 8-bit input characters, but there are
not many applications of that yet.

Victor.