[texhax] [tex-hyphen] help

[Petr Sojka]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:50:49PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Dear Werner and others,
 
> >>    In this matter I defer entirely to the TUG hyphenation team
> >>    (Arthur, Mojca, ...) who know infinitely more about such things
> >>    than I ever did or will.
> > 
> >   I wrote a UTF-8 version of patgen a few years ago.  It is very
> > slow because I didn???t need it for production, but I can look into
> > improving it.  Documentation is scarce, for the same reason.
> > 
> > 	https://github.com/hyphenation/hydra
> > 
> >   Mathias Nater also worked on his version, but I never tried it out.
> > 
> > 	https://github.com/mnater/orthos
> > 
> >   I would suggest that if Prasad is allowed to publish his word
> > list, he do so so that we have a better idea of how we can help him.
> > This will certainly be more efficient than emailing back and forth.
> 
> Another possibility for an experienced C++ user would be to convert
> opatgen's (GPLed) source code to modern C++, then publishing it on
> gitlab or something similar.
> 
>   https://web.archive.org/web/20050225005508/http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xantos/patlib/src/
> 
> Please please please please :-)

Some work of another student of mine to follow David Antos thesis 
is already in progress: https://github.com/Haaxor1689/PATLIB
It compiles now, but it yet has to be validated that is does the right
thing.

Petr