1) Gerard Kuikens created, years ago, a huge set of additional patterns for US English. As I recall, they covered all known exceptions at the time he made them. They have been available in TeX Live as language "usenglishmax" (among other names). As far as I know, he is still willing to maintain it, if anyone had bugs/requests. The patterns are (nowadays) in TL's file texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-en-us.pat.txt
2) Although we certainly aren't going to change the default typesetting done by "tex" (or "latex" or "pdflatex", or, I suppose, "groff"), I see nothing in principle that stops the addition of UTF-8/Latin-N/whatever patterns, to be enabled in a given document. The frozenness of Knuth's patterns, while certainly true, is not a block to moving forward. 3) Besides Liang's thesis, you may be interested in the information/links about the current state of TeX hyphenation at http://tug.org/tex-hyphen. Also Mojca and Arthur's paper (they are the instigators and principal maintainers of hyph-utf8) last year about it: http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-2/tb116miklavec.pdf best, karl _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
