Bug#143761: Plain TeX lacks multilingual hyhphenation patterns
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:42:11PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "JG" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>
> "DK" == David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de>
>
> DK> Plain TeX has by default only support for US-english
> DK> hyphenation patterns compiled into the format file,
> DK> although the TeX-version distributed with Woody has
> DK> various other hyphenation patterns available. This
> DK> renders the "ngerman.sty"-package unusable for plain TeX:
>
> JG> This was done upstream at the explicit request of Don
> JG> Knuth: the multilingual macros are *not* part of Plain
> JG> TeX. Please feel free to edit /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf and
> JG> uncomment the bplain line; then you can use bplain instead
> JG> of plain. (You could make the first line of your file
> JG> read %&bplain to make tex automatically load the bplain
> JG> format, or your could run bplain <filename> instead of tex
> JG> <filename>.)
>
> Aha. That's what I thought, but I didn't mark the bug as
> ``wontfix'' because I wasn't sure.
>
> We should either mark the bug as ``wontfix'' and leave it open or
> close it.
We could document how to add languages to plain tex better. We could
also ask upstream to support a symlink btex -> bplain, corresponding
to the tex -> plain symlink.
Julian
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