[gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[Ralf Stephan]

Hello,

Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
\selectlanguage{german}

babel.sty gives 
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `German'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.

german.sty gives
german -- \language number for German undefined, default 255 used,
german -- Please read "gerdoc.tex" how to install hyphenation patterns.
german -- \language number for Austrian undefined, default 255 used.
german -- \language number for French undefined, default 255 used.

Many thanjks for any hints!

Regards,
ralf
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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
> non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
> with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
> package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
> \selectlanguage{german}

I don't use texlive, but have you set linguas_de?

sorry I can't be more help!
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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[Ralf Stephan]

Iain wrote
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
> > non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
> > with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
> > package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
> > \selectlanguage{german}
> 
> I don't use texlive, but have you set linguas_de?

That was a good idea, and necessary to do, thanks.
However, latex and pdflatex apparently still don't want to use the 
language.dat file with the now correct entries. Funnily, xlatex does!
So, as workaround I've converted to UTF-8 and use xelatex now.

Any other ideas?


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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:55 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Iain wrote
> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > > Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
> > > non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
> > > with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
> > > package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
> > > \selectlanguage{german}
> > 
> > I don't use texlive, but have you set linguas_de?
> 
> That was a good idea, and necessary to do, thanks.
> However, latex and pdflatex apparently still don't want to use the 
> language.dat file with the now correct entries. Funnily, xlatex does!
> So, as workaround I've converted to UTF-8 and use xelatex now.
> 
> Any other ideas?

I found this which might be interesting:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=newlang

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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

[Ralf Stephan]

You wrote 
> I found this which might be interesting:
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=newlang

Thanks. But it was a stray tetex config file. I was pointed to
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml


ralf

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