Re: texinfo supports non-English hyphenation
On 2008/10/13 06:05 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: the CVS version of texinfo now supports non-English hyphenation! As far as I can see in 2.1.62 French, German and Spanish Learning Manuals, it already partially did before I updated texinfo.tex yesterday, although I'm not sure how some words are hyphenated, e.g. reescribi-endo in the introduction of Spanish Learning Manual. I didn't notice any hyphenation difference after updating texinfo.tex, but I guess TeXlive 2008 is needed to see improvements (Fedora 9 provides TeXlive 2007). It's certainly a good thing you added txi-LL.tex files, as people who build the docs may not have the latest versions of these files. Cheers, John
Re: texinfo supports non-English hyphenation
As far as I can see in 2.1.62 French, German and Spanish Learning Manuals, it already partially did before I updated texinfo.tex yesterday, although I'm not sure how some words are hyphenated, e.g. reescribi-endo in the introduction of Spanish Learning Manual. Yes, some strings got translated, but there wasn't any hyphenation support. I didn't notice any hyphenation difference after updating texinfo.tex, but I guess TeXlive 2008 is needed to see improvements (Fedora 9 provides TeXlive 2007). Yes, probably. It's certainly a good thing you added txi-LL.tex files, as people who build the docs may not have the latest versions of these files. They are essential; without the new versions the right hyphenation patterns aren't selected. Werner
@frenchspacing not in txi-XX.tex files
I strongly suggest to add proper @frenchspacing [on|off] commands to the txi-XX.tex files. At least German and French definitely need this. Werner
Re: @frenchspacing not in txi-XX.tex files
I strongly suggest to add proper @frenchspacing [on|off] Ok, I guess that makes sense. karl
Re: texinfo supports non-English hyphenation
it already partially It used English hyphenation patterns in all cases (and still does, if the real patterns aren't there). I didn't notice any hyphenation difference after updating texinfo.tex, but I guess TeXlive 2008 is needed to see improvements More precisely, what you need (besides texinfo.tex and txi-LL.tex) is an etex (or pdftex) .fmt that includes the patterns. And indeed, this is the case by default in TL08 and was not the case by default in TL07. Although in principle you could change things around in TL07, I suspect it would be far less work for everyone to simply install TL08 if you want the new hyphenation. (The native install won't interfere with your system installation.) karl
