Re: hyphenation in non-English languages

[Werner LEMBERG]

>       . The basic trick is to process the texinfo file with `eplain'
> 
> Wouldn't it work with etex?

No.  As outlined in babel.pdf, plain.tex must not be modified, thus
there are only US-English hyphenation patterns available.

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

I'm not aware of such a list.

> FYI, Oleg has been working on real support for other encodings and other
> fonts for some time.

I know.

> As you can imagine, it is highly nontrivial.

But as soon as such a code is there, it shouldn't be cause much
problems to adapt it for hyphenation patterns also.


    Werner