Hi Barbara, > I concur with the thanks, but would like to point out that the > file ushyphex.tex is created directly from the exception list in > tugboat, so performing the suggested operation would have > no useful effect.
The set of files we’re discussing right now is the repository maintained by Mojca and me; in the case of American English, it’s the pattern file by Gerard Kuiken, that was called ushyphmax.tex and that we renamed hyph-en-us.tex for consistency with the other pattern sets. As you can see the list of hyphenation exceptions is identical to the one in hyphen.tex: https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/blob/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-en-us.tex Best, Arthur
