Hi all, Hyphenation doesn't depend only of the language, but also on the field (Chemistry has particular needs), the style and, sometimes, the country (eg, in Spanish, the group tl is -tl in México and t-l in Spain).
At request of a subscriber of es-tex (the mailing list of Spanish TeX) I was investigating how to customize somehow the patterns. With luatex it's trivial, but not so with standard TeX. Now, with the suggestions and bugs from Rodrigo, I'll give it a push forward. I think the simplest way to carry out this is to provide two "languages" -- namely, the standard (and default), with the full set of usual patters, and a "local" set which can be configured locally and selected with, say, an option in babel or similar. There will be about 5 options and therefore considering all combinations as separate "languages" is impossible. But a single local file, so that the settings are writen to the log file (for reference), could be feasible. Let me say I'm still investigating how to do it, but perhaps this system will be enough in most of cases. Any thoughts? Javier
