Barbara classic Latin is not spoken much any more, but it is being
typeset pretty much; there is a pretty intensive discussion about the
type of hyphenation to be used in the various hymn books of the Roman
Catholic Church; and monasteries of orders founded before the XIV
century generally want to use they hymn books, breviaries, adn similare
devotional books hyphenated with the classic Latin rules.
Arthur your observation is correct: "the two sets of hyphenation
patterns are characterized by the type of hyphenation they define". What
else are the hyphen pattern files; there are small variants in the
German vs. Austrian languages and possibly hyphenation; there are
differences between American/British.Australian/New Zealand languages
and possibly hyphenation.
But the language dependent settings are defined by the babel-<language>
or gloss-<language> files that select not only the spelling of some
infix words, the the different ways of typesetting the date, etc., but
also the hyphenation settings.
Even in Latin some infix words are different; Præfatio or Praefatio,
Nouember or november; so handling Latin is not that different from
handling French or German or English, or many other languages.
Claudio
On 11/03/2016 23:07, Barbara Beeton wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:55:59PM +0100, Claudio Beccari wrote:
> Arthur the two cases you are illustrating are not simple hypotheses, they
> are real cases.
That doesn't actually surprise me. And this being so, isn't it the
case that the two sets of hyphenation patterns you created are
characterised not so much by the variant of Latin they're used with, but
rather by the type of hyphenation they define?
this is rather reminding me of the
difference between u.s. and u.k.
hyphenation patterns. u.s., allegedly
based on pronunciation, u.k., on
etymology. there really should be
a way to get both, even if classical
latin isn't much spoken any more.
-- bb
