Re: German hyphenation patterns

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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