version data missing in ConTeXt hyphenation patterns
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Wed Feb 24 10:29:06 CET 2021
[Since I'm not sure who is responsible for generating the pattern
files for ConTeXt I'm writing to this list.]
If I look into file
tex/context/patterns/mkiv/lang-de.lua
I see the following.
["metadata"]={
["mnemonic"]="de",
["source"]="hyph-de-1996",
["texcomment"]="% no comment",
}
However, version information is completely missing. For example, file
tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-de-1996.tex
contains
% version: 2019-04-04
[Arthur worked hard to make the comment format uniform for all
pattern files in `hyph-utf8`!]
This omission is really bad IMHO, since the version of the patterns
are essential to get identical line breaks for older documents.
I guess it shouldn't be too difficiult to update the `mtxrun` script,
making it add
["version"]="2019-04-04"
to the 'metadata' block. Or maybe it's better to make it update the
`.rme` files with the corresponding information.
Werner
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