Hi Jon,
I just installed Sarge on my workstation using a preseed disk Don made (and some helpful consultation from Don). When I run LaTeX I get the following :
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, bhasa, basque, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, norsk, portuges, romanian, russian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
If you would like to know anything else, let me know.
Cheers, Mike
Jon Beck wrote:
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.
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