Yes, it is correct. Under the hyphenation point of view the patterns
that deal the common grapheme for the phonemes u and v (actually that
grapheme indicated also the phoneme ü according to Quintilianus) in
modern and medieval are accomodated in the same pattern file without
interference with one another. the babel-latin.ldf and gloss-latin.ldf
manage the three orthographies at least ofor what concern the infix
words and upper- and lower-casing; these files manage also the choice
between the (prelaoded) hyphenation patterns.
Claudio
On 11/03/2016 14:24, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Claudio,
I’m trying to get an accurate view of the situation of Latin as it is
currently implemented in the TeX world. From what I can observe, there
are currently three options:
* The first one to be implemented, called “Modern Latin”, makes the
distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the digraphs “ae” and “oe”,
and is hyphenated using a set of 335 patterns that break words
according to phonetics;
* There is also one called “Medieval Latin” that does not make the
distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the ligated characters “æ“ and
“œ”, and is hyphenated using a set of 335 patterns that break words
according to phonetics;
* Finally, there is one called “Classical Latin” that does not make
the distinction between ‘u’ and ‘v’, uses the digraphs “ae” and
“oe”, and is hyphenated using a set of 740 patterns that break words
according to etymology.
By “making the distinction” I mean that ‘u’ and ‘v’ are considered
different letters in the variant of Latin you call modern, but not in
the other two, where the phonemes /u/ and /v/ use the same character,
written <u> in lowercase and <V> in uppercase.
Is that correct?
Arthur
