[tex-live] hyphen -- nearly all languages added by default

[Norbert Preining]

Dear Werner

Only quick from the mobile


On June 16, 2016 9:48:07 PM GMT+09:00, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner at suse.de> wrote:
>  tar Oxf archive/hyphen-base.tar.xz tex/generic/config/language.dat
>
>shows that *all* hyphens had already been added.  The same for

Yes, but it has been like this since long. A distribution (including TeX Live itself) that allows for partial install may not use this file, by either generating a fitting copy and optionally not even including this file.

How did you do this till 2015? You still had to activate patterns on demand at package installation time, right? (Same with font maps and format definitions!)

If you don't like the Perl modules, at package (rpm) creation date you can parse the tlpdb trivially in shell (enough examples are floating around) to pull out the AddHyphen lines used in the packages to be built, and adjust the post-install routine to activate the hyphens (and deactivate on uninstall) in the system language.*

If you can use Perl, just load the TL modules, in particular TLPDB to parse, and TLUtils to generate the language.* files.


All the best

Norbert

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