Re: German hyphenation patterns

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Cool, works now! Thanks Hans!


On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of   
>> rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are  
>> constantly  changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I  
>> was hoping that  this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't  
>> seem to work:
>>
>> \enableregime[utf]
>> \mainlanguage[deo]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \showhyphens{gestorben}
>>
>> \showhyphens{Bierdeckel}
>>
>> \showhyphens{�u�erst}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> gives me:
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8
>> [] \*10ptrmtf* ge-stor-ben
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10
>> [] \*10ptrmtf* Bier-de-ckel
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 12--12
>> [] \*10ptrmtf* �u-�erst
>>
>> which is identical to \mainlanguage[de]. Patterns should be  
>> Bierdek- kel and �us-serst. Am I missing something, how can I  
>> enable "old"  patterns?
>
> (I assume that you loaded the patterns, i.e. texexec --make --all)
>
> hard to see; for ck to become k-k you need this active " mess:
>
> \usetypescript[modern][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt]
>
> \mainlanguage[deo]
>
> \hyphenation{Bier-de-ckel}
>
> \starttext
>
> \number\normallanguage
>
> \hyphenatedword{gestorben}
>
> \hyphenatedword{Bierdeckel}
>
> \hyphenatedword{Bierde"ckel}
>
> \stoptext
>
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