> > Do you want to?
>
> Will have a look, but I can't promise anything due to time
> constraints.
To get some basic non-English hyphenation support, almost nothing has
to be changed if you use the current TeXLive. Here I demonstrate what
to do for German.
. The basic trick is to process the texinfo file with `eplain'
instead of `tex'. With TeXLive, this gives access to all
configured hyphenation patterns. `bplain' would do the same, but
there is (currently) no soft link to the `tex' binary.
. In txi-de.tex, add the following lines at the very beginning:
\makeatletter
\global\lefthyphenmin 2
\global\righthyphenmin 2
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\makeatother
That's it. Add, for example, the following at the beginning of your
texinfo file:
@documentlanguage de
@documentencoding UTF-8
Other languages can be handled similarly. You can use any input
encoding -- since texinfo has hardcoded support for CM fonts only,
words with accented letters aren't hyphenated anyway.
A minor problem is that there is no `pdfeplain' command in TeXLive
yet, but this is very easy to fix.
How shall we proceed?
Werner
