On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:16:13AM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > But we're modifying + renaming all of them now, so shhyph would not be > > used at all, so it makes no sense to try to modify & include it now. > > Let's focus on new patterns instead. > > Actually, I'd say it makes more sense to keep referring to Dejan's > patterns as Serbocroatian, since it's really the language they were > designed for, and to use them as a basis for today's "national" > languages where specific patterns are missing, that is, Serbian and > Bosnian. This for the Latin spelling. As for Cyrillic, it would even > make sense to me if we created Serbocroatian patterns by converting > Dejan's patterns -- the differences between the latter and srhyphc.tex > seem really tiny. But then, let's not be too zealous.
I believe that srhyphc actually was derived from shhyphl, but I never checked the result. As I have the original sources in which all sounds are represented with single characters, it's easy to produce the cyrillics. > In any case, we really need Dejan to make his patterns under a free > license (hint, hint :-) :) > > I'm pretty sure that if we call the patterns Serbocroatian now, some > > people will pop up at some time complaining that the language doesn't > > exist any more and they will try to convince Karl to rename them. A > > similar situation with "Norwegian". > > If so, we could ask such poeple how they feel about the Ancient Greek > patterns :-) > > (I don't know if there were hyphenation rules in Vedic Sanskrit, but > I'm sure that if there are, pattern files will be written for TeX > someday -- for the moment there are no patterns for Classical Sanskrit, > let alone Vedic). > > Arthur > Cheers, Dejan
