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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] spanish hyphenation for troff
Date: Mon,  8 Sep 2003 13:06:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f45e00a956e22de205449a6517711bb@plan9.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F58E775.C6929955@null.net>

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I don't have tex installed, I found by looking at the troff
source that it was using the tex hyphen rules too and that I had
one installed despite not having tex.

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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] spanish hyphenation for troff
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:09:17 GMT
Message-ID: <3F58E775.C6929955@null.net>

"Fco.J.Ballesteros" wrote:
> /sys/lib/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex before running [tn]roff.

Wow, that sure is nonintuitive.  troff really looks in the *optional*
TeX tree for its hyphenation rules?  What if you don't install TeX?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-08 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-05 15:05 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-09-08  9:09 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-08 11:06   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros [this message]
2003-09-08 13:10   ` Russ Cox

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