Re: hyphenation in non-English languages

2008-09-27 Thread Karl Berry
any chance that this gets implemented on the TeX side? It would be very nice. Basically, it should be just an interface to the plain TeX implementation of Babel, right? I don't know. All we really have to do is set \language. Do we need Babel for that? Now that etex (in TL'08)

Re: hyphenation in non-English languages

2008-09-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Basically, it should be just an interface to the plain TeX implementation of Babel, right? I don't know. All we really have to do is set \language. Do we need Babel for that? Well \language expects a number, doesn't it? Using Babel, we can use a string instead... Has

Re: hyphenation in non-English languages

2008-09-27 Thread Karl Berry
Well \language expects a number, doesn't it? Yes. Using Babel, we can use a string instead... Clearly we have to map from the existing @documentlanguage strings in Texinfo to the numbers that were dumped in the .fmt file for the various languages. If Babel can help us do that, and