[comp.text.tex] Writing hyphen.tex for non-English Languages

glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (09/14/90)

Hi,
	I wonder if anyone has a document (other than Liang's Thesis) that
describes how to assign the small integers to the various fragments that
occur in hyphen.tex. I'm trying to build a Spanish version for a friend and
would like to base the hyphenation on that specified in 'Hart's Rules'.

Failing a general description of how to do this I'd like to get hold of some
non-English hyphen.tex's (particularly Spanish). 

Can anyone help?
					Thanks in advance,
							Glenn

glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au

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DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (09/17/90)

Glenn,

The best way to obtain patterns is to run the program called PATGEN. When I
created Russian hyphenation patterns, I preloaded a few obvious ones, then
fed a large list of hyphenated words to PATGEN. I highly recommend Kellerman
& Smith's change file if you can get it. (I started with it to create a
change file for PATGEN for MS-DOS---it makes PATGEN a lot friendlier.)

Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math

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