From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17674 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Hyphenation peculiarity. Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:51 +0100 Message-ID: <41D2BAEB.9050707@elvenkind.com> References: <200412281754.33849.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104329671 7293 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 14:14:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 29 15:14:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cjeaj-00032t-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:14:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913171279C; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:14:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25717-02; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:14:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23650127B0; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E28C127B0 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25459-04-2 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (unknown [213.84.171.68]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93010127AA for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772C510A36 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:07:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (glenfiddich.elvenkind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23073-06 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:07:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.10.0.6] (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A0222E0 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:07:55 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200412281754.33849.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvenkind.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17674 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17674 Hi John, Your format is probably missing the hyphenation patterns for english (I ran into the same problem last week): # texexec --make en .... language : no patterns en for en (n=1) (lang-en.pat,ukhyph.tex language : no hyphenations en for en (n=1) language : no patterns uk for uk (n=2) (lang-uk.pat,ukhyph.tex language : no hyphenations uk for uk (n=2) John Culleton wrote: > I noted that context seems to be most reluctant to hyphenate. So I ran a test > file through plain tex, pdftex and Context and checked the results. Context > hyphenated less than the other two. > > The manual does not say much about hyphenation. I am using a fresh TeXLive > install. > > Here is the top part of the log----------------------------------------------- > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (format=cont-en > 2004.12.28) 28 DEC 2004 17:14 > entering extended mode > %&-line parsing enabled. > (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) > **&cont-en hypph.tex > (./hypph.tex > > ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.17 fmt: 2004.12.28 int: english mes: english > > language : language en is active > > Here is the test file-------------------------------------------- > \hsize 2in > \input knuth.tex > \bye > > It seems to act as if the hyphenation dictionary weren't here. If I put in a > discretionary hyphen Context will use it.