Karl Berry wrote:
> FWIW, I think changing hyphenation in (pdf)latex for any commonly used
> language would cause far more problems that it would help. Messing
> around with {xe,lua}latex is one thing -- it's reasonable to break
> compatibility there.
It is /very/ rare that I agree with Karl,
Claudio Beccari wrote:
> Objection: but vintage files get hyphenated in a different way! OK, but
> the real question is: Is the new hyphenation correct?
> If it is, why getting upset? The small differences in typesetting may
> involve a couple of paragraphs in a whole document, and probably no
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> And pdftex is 100% backwards compatible with DEK's TeX.
Well, not really : compare the result of expanding (e.g.,)
\expandafter \ifx \csname pdfximage\endcsname \relax UNDEFINED\else
DEFINED\fi
in the two engines ...
** Phil.
Philip Taylor wrote:
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> And pdftex is 100% backwards compatible with DEK's TeX.
>
> Well, not really : compare the result of expanding (e.g.,)
>
> \expandafter \ifx \csname pdfximage\endcsname \relax UNDEFINED\else
> DEFINED\fi
>
> in the two engines ...
