Re: German hyphenation patterns

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

On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote:

> LaTeX's german.sty and also ConTeXt provide
> "ck -> k-k
> "ll -> ll-l
> "ff ->ff-f
> (as in Bierde"ckel, Ro"lladen or Schi"ffahrt).
Thank you, that was it!

> Hmm, my Duden of 1996 writes in black "au|ßerst" (= new &  
> established spelling), which is in line what I remember.
> But I see \showhyphens{äußerstenfalls} be wrongly hyphenated;  
> according to Duden it should be:
> äu|ßersten|falls (new spelling: äu|ßers|ten|falls). TeX hyphenates  
> here (with deo = established spelling) between the s and the t.

Yes, you're right again; I thought I remembered a rule that there  
should be no hyphenation in front of ß. But hyphenation between s-t  
is still there, and it shouldn't be in [deo]. Sorry we German- 
language-users have to bother everybody else with the mess we created.

Thanks, and best

Thomas