Re: [PEPr] Comment on Text::TeXHyphen

On 29 May 2004 at 11:35, Stefan Ohrmann wrote: > Am 28.05.2004 23:43 schrieb PEPr: > > Stefan Neufeind (http://pear.php.net/user/neufeind) has commented on > > the proposal for Text::TeXHyphen. > > > > How easy/hard is it to implement other languages > > as well - or is there maybe a database with correct patterns > > available somewhere? > > This depends on how quick you can convert a TeX hyphenation file. > TeX/LaTeX supports many languages, as cou can see here > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/>. Not all > languages have this > many pattern as the german (about 5000). At this time in the package is > no support for unicode. This will be a todo in the future. Fine. Was just wondering how open this approach is and how widely used these hypenation-rules are. > > By the way: When trying out the German hyphenation I noticed that it > > correctly doesn't support "Umlaute"? Can this typical German problem > > be implemented with the ruleset (ü -> ue, if it is split in two > > sylables)? > > Where did you try this, in the online example? Then, i have to correct > the quickform rule, about 'lettersonly'. Otherwise can you give me an > exmaple, what you tried. Just tried again. Seems to work now. Maybe you corrected the quickform? Well done! Regards, Stefan