Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> from this i learn (a) that at the time the post > http://listserv.tau.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0011&L=ivritex&P=591 was > written, there was no hebrew hyphenation patterns, even among those > whose main language is hebrew. > > that hebtex list is a closed one, so (apart from archived posts) > there seems little chance of getting any further. The following seems to be the key part : >>> No reason to put the hyphen in Hebrew between syllables. It's >>> enough to watch that the word will not split to shorter than 3 >>> letters sections. This check is indeed done by the mentioned >>> software. So all that we need is LHM=3, RHM=3, and patterns that permit hyphenation between all possible pairs of Hebrew characters that represent letters; should I therefore move this part of the discussion to the TeX-Hyphen list ? ** Phil.
