Re: language.dat: Should we just enable all the patterns?
From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Re: language.dat: Should we just enable all the patterns?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:12:05 +0100
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
>
> > Hi Frank, please take it easy.
>
> Oh, I'm taking it easy. It's just that Hilmar and I had this discussion
> in de.comp.text.tex with Walter Schmidt (author of VTeX/free[1] and the
> PS-font-guru in the group). He strongly argued for enabling all patterns
> and couldn't imagine any reason why not to do this.
I see. I'm neutral at the moment but would like
to comment a bit from my quick look.
- it seemed english should always be defined but
it could be an alias for american or british.
I don't know how they differ but IMHO it could be
a problem.
- there are some languages which provide multiple
hyphenation patterns like norsk, ukrainian.
Especially, ukrainian seems to use only one of
candidates. I might be wrong but with all candidates
enabled "texconfig init" showed an error message
`tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' possibly failed.
though latex.fmt seemed generated. ^^^^^^^^
- jlatex (of jtex-bin) caused error with dutch and
magyar at first trial, and further, after commenting
out these in language.dat, it failed to generate jlatex.fmt
with an error;
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/nohyphb.tex Norsk hyphenation patterns
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory ops=1501].
l.1422 .u2r2i
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
Though I'm not sure but even if foo.fmt could be
successfully generated I'm afraid when one trys to process
a normal file (i.e. not so large nor with not so many
macros) with foo.fmt, one could get TeX capacity exceeded error.
> Unfortunately, I wasn't able
> to read the documentation - xdvi segfaults after some font errors, and
> dvips doesn't generate output. Brr.
Ah, this is completely different issue. You need xdvik-ja
and dvipsk-ja to read the documentation but if you installed
these it would be difficult for you to find out problems
of tetex-bin (i.e. xdvi or dvips) because xdvi and dvips
would call binaries of xdvik-ja and dvipsk-ja but not of
tetex-bin.
Regards, 2004-3-2(Tue)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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