Bug#942807: tex-common: Cannot include hyphenation patterns with etex

[Markus Demleitner <msdemlei@fsfe.org>]

Dear Norbert,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 04:54:10PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> But you can definitely use different languages:
> 	\uselanguage{ngerman}
> 	...

Indeed.  This is what I was looking for, but what comes up on 

texdoc etex 

doesn't mention \uselanguage, and actually looking for language or
hyphenation in there just yields a discussion of lccode, which didn't
help me a lot the other day. The document's introduction, on the
other hand, sounded more more like there's only additions to the DEK
tex feature set (this as an excuse for wasting your time).

Now, I give you etex is probably somewhat ancient and perhaps we
shouldn't bother, but as a wishlist item I might mention "Make
wherever doc you found uselanguage in a bit better discoverable
within texdoc or some other kind of documentation".

> Usage of languages are different in etex and latex, you cannot use
> ngerman.sty - or at least not as is.

Ok, I see.  I'm fine with closing this bug.  Or turning it into a
wishlist item.

Thanks a lot,

         Markus