[Trennmuster] hyph-de – welche Datei brauch ich wirklich (aktuell)?

[Stephan Hennig]

Am 04.06.2013 10:39, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Stephan Hennig wrote:
>> Am 31.05.2013 09:30, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>
>>>> tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-1901.chr.txt
>>>> tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-1996.chr.txt
>>>> tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-ch-1901.chr.txt
>>>
>>> Probably useless. Just the list of characters that are used by the patterns.
>>
>> Is there any other purpose of these files than documentation?
> 
> In principle LuaTeX could (but doesn't really) use them for setting
> lccodes.

OK.  Here's an excerpt from hyph-de-1901.chr.txt

  ...
  zZ
  ßSS
  àÀ
  ...

which looks suspicious.  Even if the files are not yet used, perhaps
they are someday.  How should the line dealing with ß be interpreted?


> And they could be used as source for creating patterns for other
> programs which need to know the set of characters being used. I find
> it useful to look into that file from time to time. Sometimes to see
> whether a particular font encoding is suitable for that language, 
> etc.

OK.  That's want I meant with 'documentation'.  Are these files /always/
regenerated when patterns are updated in hyph-utf8?


>> FYI: Latest dehyph-exptl documentation discusses how to discover the
>> version of experimental German patterns in package hyph-utf8 (appendix
>> B, question: Wie kann die Version der experimentellen Muster ermittelt
>> werden, die im Paket hyph-utf8 enthalten sind?)
> 
> Thank you. I would use
>     grep dehyph `kpsewhich hyph-de-1901.tex`
> instead, but it's ok the way it is now.

Mojca, what happened to conventional German patterns for 8-bit TeX?


> PS: So much about the hypotetic question "Is there any other purpose
> of hyph-de-1901.lic.txt other than documentation?" ;)
> As soon as I would change the name of that file (or maybe even remove
> it), users of dehyph-exptl would start complaining that the recipes
> from their documentation don't work any more ;)

Yeah, but we can surely release more often and adapt. ;-)

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig