> . The basic trick is to process the texinfo file with `eplain'
>
> Wouldn't it work with etex?
No. As outlined in babel.pdf, plain.tex must not be modified, thus
there are only US-English hyphenation patterns available.
> Is there a simple table somewhere of the correct
> \{left,right}hyphenmin values? I don't relish digging into all the
> babel files.
I'm not aware of such a list.
> FYI, Oleg has been working on real support for other encodings and other
> fonts for some time.
I know.
> As you can imagine, it is highly nontrivial.
But as soon as such a code is there, it shouldn't be cause much
problems to adapt it for hyphenation patterns also.
Werner