Re: french hyphenation patterns
On 5 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote: I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly [...] However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following output from TeX: [...] Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel)the language `French' (babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead. [...] You need to build a new so-called format file which includes the hyphenation patterns for French. To do so, run the program 'texconfig' (as root), choose the option hyphen and uncomment the line about French, ie. remove the percent sign in front of the lines: french frhyphen =patois All should fine afterwards. Please feel free to ask if the above is not clear or does not work. Jitse Niesen
Re: french hyphenation patterns
Jitse Niesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote: I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly [...] However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following output from TeX: [...] Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel)the language `French' (babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead. [...] You need to build a new so-called format file which includes the hyphenation patterns for French. To do so, run the program 'texconfig' (as root), choose the option hyphen and uncomment the line about French, ie. remove the percent sign in front of the lines: french frhyphen =patois All should fine afterwards. Please feel free to ask if the above is not clear or does not work. Thanks for the suggestion. When I go to do this, I find that there are similar lines already in the file: % French, TWO lines! french frhyph.tex =patois So I modified the whitespace in the file a little to force texconfig to rebuild the formats. It then did rebuild them. However, even then hyphenation doesn't work properly--I still get the same error message as above. Just to see if it would make a difference, I downgraded the tetex packages to the latest stable versions (I normally run bleeding-edge unstable) but nothing changed. Any further suggestions? -- There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be. --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_
french hyphenation patterns
[CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.]
I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with
LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use
something like the following for my LaTeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
Insensiblement nous tombons dans des situations périlleuses, dont nous
pouvions aisément nous garantir, mais dont nous ne pouvons plus nous
tirer sans des efforts héroïques qui nous effaryent, et nous tombons
enfin dans l'abîme en disant à Dieu : Pourquoi m'as-tu fait si
faible ? Mais malgré nous il répond à nos consciences : Je t'ai
fait trop faible pour sortir du gouffre, parce que je t'ai fait assez
for pour n'y pas tomber.
\end{document}
However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following
output from TeX:
blp:~/frn420(0)$ latex \\nonstopmode\\input explication.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995
Loading SK hyphenation patterns: Jana Chlebikova, 1992
(explication.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/switch.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `French'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
)) (explication.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1]
(explication.aux) )
Output written on explication.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
Transcript written on explication.log.
The No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language `French' is
the part that worries me. I've consulted the documentation on this
issue, but it seems to say that if `french' is turned on in
/etc/texmf/language.dat (which it certainly seems to be) then French
hyphenation patterns should get loaded.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ben.
--
Whoever you are -- SGI, SCO, HP, or even Microsoft -- most of the
smart people on the planet work somewhere else.
--Eric S. Raymond
Re: french hyphenation patterns
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:03:39PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.]
I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with
LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use
something like the following for my LaTeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
Insensiblement nous tombons dans des situations périlleuses, dont nous
pouvions aisément nous garantir, mais dont nous ne pouvons plus nous
tirer sans des efforts héroïques qui nous effaryent, et nous tombons
enfin dans l'abîme en disant à Dieu : Pourquoi m'as-tu fait si
faible ? Mais malgré nous il répond à nos consciences : Je t'ai
fait trop faible pour sortir du gouffre, parce que je t'ai fait assez
for pour n'y pas tomber.
\end{document}
However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following
output from TeX:
blp:~/frn420(0)$ latex \\nonstopmode\\input explication.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995
Loading SK hyphenation patterns: Jana Chlebikova, 1992
(explication.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/switch.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `French'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
)) (explication.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1]
(explication.aux) )
Output written on explication.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
Transcript written on explication.log.
The No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language `French' is
the part that worries me. I've consulted the documentation on this
issue, but it seems to say that if `french' is turned on in
/etc/texmf/language.dat (which it certainly seems to be) then French
hyphenation patterns should get loaded.
Any suggestions?
Well, this is no help, but I ran your snippet here locally and it worked
fine. (Debian Unstable, last update about 2 days ago)
I've only made 1 modification to the stock install, and that was to
enable the ConTeXt formats.
$ latex frenchy
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(frenchy.tex
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) (frenchy.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1] (frenchy.aux) )
Output written on frenchy.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
Transcript written on frenchy.log.
--
Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
