Karl Berry schrieb: > This shouldn't really matter as long as experimental > hyphenation patterns are installed in TeX Live 2008, by > > What do the instructions look like for miktex? Ordinarily, users don't > have to do anything to enable the patterns at .fmt-dumping time.
For MiKTeX I'm discussing how to modify language.dat via GUI and command-line. GUI instructions for TeX Live are not really necessary, it's just an extra level of comfort for the mouse-affine user. (Well, this is the kind of task that cannot be done comfortably in a GUI, but they don't know.) The command-line instructions essentially discuss * how to locate or create a copy of language.dat in a local texmf tree, * how to modify language.dat - Remove existing lines containing '=[n]german-x-latest'. - Add the four lines shown below. * how to dump new format files. I've hesitated to copy them here, since for obvious reasons all documentation of the german-x package is in German only, except for a small abstract. Unfortunately, I didn't think about package maintainers then. If time permits, I'll add some more English instructions. > german-x-<date> dehypht-x-<date>.tex > =german-x-latest > ngerman-x-<date> dehyphn-x-<date>.tex > =ngerman-x-latest > > Is the -latest really desirable for the generic names, instead of just > german-x and ngerman-x? Well, a time related term puts some more explicit documentation of the writer's intentions into the sources: "Hey, take these patterns, whatever their version might be. Robust line breaking is no issue." The names german-x or ngerman-x look pretty stable, don't they? And after all, all this stuff is still experimental. Best regards, Stephan Hennig
