Am 05.09.2010 16:35, schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
On 09/05/2010 02:55 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
b) will make existing documents (hyphenation exceptions) "fail" ?
Yes, for example:
bla bla bla. Declination is ....
will not use the standard hyphen.tex exception for "Declination".
What about patterns, are they going to be case-sensitive, too? That
could resolve one class of homonyms in German language, e.g.,
spie-len-de vs. Spiel-en-de
At the same time, I think the number of used levels (we are at level 8
already), average pattern length, and number of matching patterns per
word could decrease, because case-sensitive patterns are should be more
specific then case-insensitive ones. All at the cost of more patterns
of course, but I haven't done any tests so far. I'll report back, if I
have some numbers.
Personally, I think this is acceptable. But if there are objections,
I can go back to being case-incensitive, it is not that important.
A configuration option seems sensible that, if set to case-insensitive,
lower-cases words before pattern matching, effectively ignoring patterns
containing upper-case letters (lower-casing patterns, too, could
generate conflicting patterns). I have no preference for the default
behaviour, though. Hyphenation quality would go down in both cases,
case-insensitive patterns are used with a case-sensitive pattern
matching strategy and vice versa. But it would preserve (a way for)
backwards-compatibility, i.e., maintaining the current level of
hyphenation quality, when existing patterns are used.
Best regards,
Stephan Hennig
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