[Trennmuster] [tex-hyphen] Renaming plain pattern files in hyph-utf8: feedback?

[Guenter Milde]

On 11.04.16, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 11 April 2016 at 07:33, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >
> >> We also need a reasonable name for the complete collection of those
> >> patterns.  Something like "plain"?
> >
> > I don't see the need for this additional directory level.  Why not
> > simply omitting, i.e.
...

> The problem is that we already have:

> - patterns/tex/hyph-<lang>.tex
>   (original tex file with patterns)
> - patterns/ptex/hyph-<lang>.<enc>.tex
>   (auto-generated 8-bit patterns needed for pTeX; theoretically useful
> in any 8-bit engine;
>    patterns encoded as "z1^^ba" for example)
> - patterns/tex-8bit/copthyph.tex
>   (only a single file for Coptic with some super weird contents
>    other "similar" patterns are for Greek: grahyph5.tex, grmhyph5.tex,
> grphyph5.tex)
> - patterns/quote/hyph-quote-<lang>.tex
>   (auto-generated files with duplicated patterns with apostrophe, U+2019 / ’)

> If we would put language names in parallel to those directory names,
> the existing directories would "get lost" in the sea of languages.

OK

However, the name "plain" is a bit fussy here, as in "TeX context" it is
most commonly used for "plain TeX" vs. "LaTeX" or "Context"


> Of course we could sort the files according to language and then put
> all files belonging to a specific language to one folder, but then we
> would end up in a weird mixture of original and auto-generated files
> which would be both slightly annoying for us (and we are already
> getting contributions from pattern authors who send us all the files
> that we would auto-generate (= lost effort) along with the original
> contribution).

If the files in patterns/txt/ are the source, we could call the directory
patterns/src/, otherwise, we could just keep patterns/txt/ (especially when
removing the .txt suffix).

> Plus, I believe that we need a short document explaining some weird
> names like mul-ethi, la-x-classic, de-1901, ... so that anyone else
> using the patterns outside of the TeX would would get at least a
> slight idea what these are.

Yes.

Thanks,
Günter