Hi,
Le 28/04/2010 19:24, Stephan Hennig a écrit :
Oh, please don't care about the timestamped patterns. The time stamp is
only a crude hack to avoid file name confusion while testing patterns
that are under development. We are happily waiting for Polyglossia to
provide a way for ageing patterns some day.
The patterns in the dehyph-exptl package were originally meant for LaTeX
and Babel only. Mojca just grabbed our patterns for XeTeX (for
converting the ugly conventional German OT1/T1 patterns to UTF-8 seemed
hard), arguing that there's no need for (self-)backwards compatibility
as long as XeTeX's version number is lower than 1.0. So, as long as the
latter holds, there is no need to consider timestamped patterns in
hyph-utf8.
Ok, thanks for the informations.
But once XeTeX or LuaTeX grow v1.0, it would be nice to have
an official solution for ageing patterns in TeX. Freezing patterns is
bad, IMHO.
Well, I hope a solution will begin to emerge before LuaTeX 1.0 is out, but this
is definitely not our goal right now. We're just trying to make sure that things
that used to work keep working (but avoiding the current big delay at format
loading time).
Manuel.
