2010/3/16 François Charette wrote: > On 16/03/2010 01:16, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> 2010/3/15 François Charette wrote: >> >>> someone has posted new hyphenation patterns for Malayalam and >>> Tamil today. Should I forward them to you or to this list? > > No idea where the patterns are from.
Where did that person post the patterns? > The file header only says they used a > script developed by Yves Codet and Jonathan Kew to generate them. My guess > is that they are derived from the Aspell ones: > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html > (or perhaps the equivalent DIC files for hunspell under OpenOffice). I would like to see the files ... if nothing else to figure out where they come from. It would make sense to take them from original repository. >> I do not want to spam the list too much, so it's ok to send it >> privately. But ... we didn't add any of those languages to repository >> yet in case that you are not talking about Sanskrit (there are about >> 10 different patterns available). > > No, Tamil and Malayalam are Dravidian languages, each with their own script, > and thus completeley unrelated to Sanskrit :) OK. I just wasn't sure since the Sanskrit patterns also have "Malayalam", whatever that means. >> 1.) I would like to leave that joy to Arthur. >> 2.) If we add them all, that means that pdftex will also load those >> extra ten languages. > > Well, there is indeed an inflationary risk. But not all hyphenation patterns > need to be activated by default. TeX distributions like MikTeX and TeX Live > can decide whether the patterns for non-Western languages that are only > usable with xetex or luatex should be commented out by default or not. In my opinion it makes little sense to activate them by default, but on the other hand a complete TeX Live installation loads *all* the patterns since installing a package is equal to activating the patterns (at least in TeX Live). MikTeX has some graphical user interface to choose which patterns to install. Mojca
