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

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Am 04.06.2013 10:39, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
> 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?

Honestly - I don't know and I didn't notice this until now. Suggestions welcome.

>> 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?

Yes, even though not automatically (if I forget to run the script,
they wouldn't be).

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

Nothing. They are still there.

>> 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. ;-)

I know. One of my points was that I don't have any idea how the files are used.

Mojca