Hi FOP maintainers, FOP does not ship hyphenation patterns due to perceived license problems by upstream¹. On the other hand, Debian ships at least some hyphenation patterns in the texlive-base package, so it seems that we do not see a problem here.
If that is the case we should ship a fop package with hyphenation patterns included. The question is how to generate and ship them. Here is the workflow: The sources seem to be included in the texlive source, in the CTAN hyph-utf8 package. Their SVN includes a conversion script to turn them into XML files². These XML files have to be compiled by FOP³. Now the texlive-base-2009 package does not include the necessary files (e.g. patterns/txt/hyph-af.lic.txt) to generate the XML files, so they can not easily built within the texlive package. You could either create a tarball from the SVN repository of the hyph-utf8 package or fetch the generated XML files in the tarball http://sourceforge.net/projects/offo/files/offo-hyphenation/2.0/offo-hyphenation_v2.0.zip/download but that would go a bit against Debians policy of building anything from the most primitive source available (although texlive-base-2009’s source also seems to contain generated patterns). If you want to build them together with FOP, the new multi-tarball feature of dpkg might be handy. Thanks, Joachim ¹ http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/hyphenation.html#license-issues Many of the hyphenation files distributed with TeX and its offspring are licenced under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), which prevents them from being distributed with Apache software. The LPPL puts restrictions on file names in redistributed derived works which we feel can't guarantee. Some hyphenation pattern files have other or additional restrictions, for example against use for commercial purposes. ² http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/collaboration/source/offo/ ³ http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/installation.html#Installation+of+FOP+XML+Hyphenation+Patterns -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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