On 13 Jun 2006, at 8:25 am, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On a more general level, if both ConTeXt and XeTeX are engaged in >> converting legacy TeX hyphenation patterns to utf-8, should they be >> coordinated in order to avoid duplication of effort? >> >> > anyone can use the patterns; of course bugs need to be sorted out, but > given my experiences with pattern maintainance i will not drop them > from > context; too much has gone wrong in the past; but you can consider > them > to be generic so indeed we can avoid duplication of work.
Indeed.... I have no desire to duplicate work. :) My main concern at this point relates to packaging and co-ordination between the different macro packages that load patterns; we can't expect latex users to be dependent on having context installed, or vice versa. Patterns belong in a base tex installation, where they can be available to any higher-level macro package. This needs to be sorted out among a wider group than this mailing list.... JK _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
