Re: ConTeXt german hyphenation

[Willadt@t-online.de (Peter Willadt)]

Tobias Burnus schrieb:
> 
> Hallo Peter,
> 
> 
> I think TeX doesn't always hyphenate correct in LaTeX, when the hyphenation is
> allowed in words containing accentuated characters (such as ü = diphthong + u)
Hello,

former versions of german.sty (before TeX3) did a dirty trick in fooling
TeX that a new word began anywhere an umlaut was encountered. So there
were more hyphenations than the other way, but of course these were not
always correct. 
Now with TeX3 there came 8-bit and the patterns as well as german.sty
were changed to conform to this new situation.

As far as I know, incorrect hyphenation comes mostly from too long
composite words. Hyphenation of words with umlauts appears correct to
me.

> I think both ideas are valid. In order to use ä as a letter and not as a accent
> placed on a letter you need a font, which contains this letter. This can be a
> virtual font (as ae, which maps ä to CM's "a) or a real one as the frequent used
> LaTeX EC fonts (which have no Type 1 equivalent.) Using CM fonts directly it is
> impossible to hyphenate accented words correctly, independed whether you type
> \"a, "a or ä.
> (I don't know in how far this is true for Postscript fonts or EC, or for ae
> virtual fonts under ConTeXt.)
> 
Well, I have used eight bit Times in the example \setupbodyfont[ber,
ptm].

To me it looks like ConTeXt uses the hyphenation patterns in the plain
old TeX 2 way. Too bad I'm not enough of an expert to really figure that
out.

Peter Willadt