Dear Hans Hagen, dear Hyphenationers, On 2023-08-22, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/22/2023 1:11 PM, Keno Wehr wrote: >> The German patterns of hyph-utf8 are outdated (2021-02-26). Newer >> patterns are available in dehyph-exptl (2023-03-06). >> Please update!
> afaik on ctan they are tagged experimental > but even then they would become > > hyph-de-2023.tex > > once officially declared stable; > they can't automatically replace the > current ones without announcement (compatibility reasons) Actually, the German patterns in hyph-utf8 are the maintained versions from the "increasingly misnamed" *dehyph-exptl* package. They were regularely updated to include fixes and additons, see, e.g., https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/commits/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-de-1901.tex While "de-1901" and "de-1996" are official language tags, *de-2023* would be against the BCP47 rules (home-made sub-tags must be preceded by -x). The "Trennmustermannschaft" is constantly improving the dehyph-exptl patterns for both, old (de-1901) and "new" (de-1996) orthography, https://repo.or.cz/wortliste.git. Whenever there is a critical mass of improvements and fixes, we release a new package version on CTAN. The 2023 update does not reflect a change in orthography, so it would be wrong to replace one of hyph-de-1901.tex or hyph-de-1996.tex with a hyph-de-2023.tex. If for some reason, the patterns in hyph-utf8 are frozen since 2022, versioned patterns could become "hyph-*-19..-x-2023-03-06.tex". Sincerely Günter Milde
