Dear Kevin & Siji, Thanks a lot for you contribution with patterns.
There's only one main question. The patterns for OpenOffice come from the following git repository: - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc.git/tree/hyphenation and are relatively "well maintained" (last change in repository in February). But the question is: the patterns are different - which ones should I take then? Or rather: what is the difference between the ones that Santhosh Thottingal has made and the ones sent to XeTeX mailing list by Kevin & Siji? (I was planning to import all the eleven patterns from that repository, though at the time when I noticed them I didn't know of any pending request to include them to TeX distribution. Now that already two people have asked, it probably makes a lot of sense to include them.) Maybe it's best if we discuss the differences off-list (with Kevin & Siji, Yves and Santhosh Thottingal; or anyone else that's interested) in order not to have too much "spam" on the mailing list. On 2010/3/16 François Charette wrote: > On 16/03/2010 15:57, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Where did that person post the patterns? > > On the xetex mailing list, two days ago. Thanks a lot. I checked through archive shortly, but the subject was a bit misleading. > I also have gloss files for Marathi, Bengali and Telugu pending integration > into polyglossia, but no hyphenation patterns for them yet. If you or Arthur > can convert the ones available from OpenOffice, that would be wonderful :) We don't need to convert them at all. We just need to put "\patterns{...}" around the patterns, auto-generate the loaders and notify Norbert or someone else to add a new package to TeX Live (and MikTeX/W32TeX?). >> 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. > > Let's leave that decision to Karl, Norbert and others then ;) There's probably no decision. We'll have to ask Norbert to create a new package and that's it. I hope that memory will suffice for a dozen more patterns until TeX Live 2010 :) There's something else that we might want to considered at the same time. A group of Lua(La)TeX enthusiast wants to switch to on-the-fly loading of hyphenation patterns. This means that we will have to modify loadhyph-xx.tex anyway (they want to parse patterns with lua instead of using TeX). In a way I would like to split language.dat into two files (one for 8-bit and one for Unicode engines), but that may still wait ... It's only that pdfTeX will have a dozen or more of useless languages defined. Mojca
