Hello, again a couple of months have passed...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > Dear Andreas, > > last summer you reported this bug, and it hasn't been resolved since > then. I guess you also haven't found a solution yet? [...] > And what I take out from gerdoc.dvi is that plain TeX doesn't use > language.dat, but instead hyphen.tex. This is USenglish in the first > place, and one has to rename it and create a new one that loads both the > renamed ushyphen.tex, and the german patterns. After that, the format > has to be regenerated. > > An alternative seems to be to change /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf to > enable babel for plain TeX (it's explained in the file). Or you use etex > and language.def Did any of these approaches help you? If not, we should investigate further, if yes we can close this bug. > Does that help you? Note that currently > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex is _not_ regarded as a > configuration file and will be overwritten if tetex-base is upgraded. We > should probably change this... Thinking about it again, it doesn't seem as if making hyphen.tex a conffile is a good idea, or changing it at all. Using babel (plain.ini) in 00tetex.cnf is a viable alternative, and there's not need to treat hyphen.tex as a conffile. Thank you in advance, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer