This is a message for GNU/Linux LaTeX users. I was getting to the final proofing stage of a paper to submit for publication when I noticed that the hyphenation that latex was producing was bizarre and dreadful. For example, projects was split as proje-cts and should was sho-uld and mechanism was me-chanism, and many more similar. This is on my new sarge laptop.
Unfortunately, I didn't capture the log messages before I started playing with it, but after just one round of texconfig (when I don't think I changed anything) I got the line: Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for loaded. but when I latexed the same file on my old woody box, I got: Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, nohyphenation, loaded. Upon further looking, there wasn't even a ushyphen1.tex file on my sarge box, and my language.dat file didn't reference english or american. After countless dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin and texconfig runs, and fruitless searches in dselect for the missing files for american hyphenation, I just copied the language.dat and ushyphen1.tex files from my woody to my sarge box, re-ran texconfig, and hyphenation is now working correctly. I know, however, that dpkg-reconfigure will screw it up again. dpkg-reconfigure doesn't even have english on the list of languages available to load. I just thought I'd share this. I couldn't find any documentation of problems on the web, so maybe my original installation was just flaky. Or maybe this is a little detail not yet finished up for the sarge distro. After the paper is submitted, I may try re-installing. If you have time and have a sarge box to use, I'd be curious if your hyphenation works correctly. -- Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Assoc Professor, Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall Truman State University 660.785.7233 Kirksville, MO 63501 http://vh216202.truman.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
