Re: hyphenation in non-English languages

[Karl Berry]

      . The basic trick is to process the texinfo file with `eplain'

Wouldn't it work with etex?  I don't see that any eplain-specific
features are being used.  (\makeat*er being trivial, as we all know.)

texi2dvi already uses etex (or pdf[e]tex) when they are present.  So in
this case, I don't think there is anything special to do.  Which is
excellent news :).

  . In txi-de.tex, add the following lines at the very beginning:

Very nice!  It did not occur to me that we could make use of txi-de.tex,
but it makes sense.  I can work on this.

Is there a simple table somewhere of the correct \{left,right}hyphenmin
values?  I don't relish digging into all the babel files.

    since texinfo has hardcoded support for CM fonts only,
    words with accented letters aren't hyphenated anyway.

FYI, Oleg has been working on real support for other encodings and other
fonts for some time.  As you can imagine, it is highly nontrivial.

Thanks much,
karl