Phil Taylor wrote: >> No, the patterns should work just fine with a large alphabet.
> This part I do not understand, Mojca; surely the patterns /define/ the > size of the alphabet, do they not ? If letter <xqqyn> is not in the > patterns, then TeX cannot hyphenate a word containing letter <xqqyn>, > can it ? TeX can hyphenate such a word, depending on the patterns available. E.g., given the pattern a1 (There is always a good break point after the letter a) it will happily hyphenate the a word containing the sequence a<xqqyn>. --Jörg Knappen
