On 14/03/2010 21:21, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 20:14, Nazar Annagurban wrote:
Hi guys,
I found the mailing-list through google. I'd like to ask you about adding a
new hyphenation language. I have prepared the hyphenation patterns for the
turkmen language (Turkmenistan) and tested it using the java implementation
of Frank Liangs algorithm. However, I'd like to test that the charset (our
special character that are not in latin1) works correctly under tex (latex)
before I submit it. I looked through the Babel files to find the file
containing language definition to hyphen patterns binding, but I couldn't
find it. If you guys could give me some directions? Or anyway I could latex
use my patterns for hyphenating.
(Turkmenistan hasn't had much latex exposure, but I'm using it to prepare
digital versions of older books, and maybe more people will start using it
seeing the quality of the result)
Hello,
It is very nice to see new contributors.
It is quite possible that nobody has written Babel support for you
language yet. From what I can read, people might use both Latin and
Cyrillic script (as well as Arabic), so you might want to keep that in
mind when writing support, so that it would be easy enough to plug in
the other script if one would need or request it in future.
Maybe you could also contact François Charette for help with
Polyglossia or the author of Babel if you need help. To start with
just take a file *.ldf and try to adapt it for your language.
I would be glad indeed to add Turkmen support to polyglossia! It would
be nice to also find contributors for the other important Central Asian
languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tajik, etc.)!
Concerning Polyglossia: I am currently preparing v1.2 which will
introduce a new simplified interface for writing gloss-*.ldf files.
Contact me if you are interested. From v1.2 onward there will most
probably be one gloss file per language+script combination. That means
we would need gloss-turkmen.ldf for the common macros and definitions,
and gloss-turkmen_cyr.ldf, gloss-turkmen_lat.ldf and perhaps even
gloss-turkmen_ara.ldf, for each script.
BTW, Mojca, someone has posted new hyphenation patterns for Malayalam
and Tamil today. Should I forward them to you or to this list?
Best regards,
François
