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Re: texinfo supports non-English hyphenation
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David Kastrup |
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Re: texinfo supports non-English hyphenation |
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:47:00 +0200 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>> I just compiled with the new language files and voila there is
>> hyphenation, which was not there at least in the German docs.
>> (Texlive 2007) Well, it is not as good as babel, while I don't
>> really understand, what is the difference.
>
> Words which contain ä, ö, ü, or ß are not hyphenated. The first three
> are composed characters in the cmr fonts (which texinfo currently uses
> exclusively), and ß is at a different position (OT1 font encoding) as
> the pattern encoding (T1).
AFAIK, the German patterns use both pattern positions for ß.
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