Bug#143761: Plain TeX lacks multilingual hyhphenation patterns

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

reassign 143761 tetex-base
severity 143761 wishlist
retitle 143761 "Move configuration files for plain TeX to /etc/texmf and make them conffiles"
thanks

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:

It's very unlikely that we'll change this situation.  There are at
least two alternatives that don't involve tinkering directly with
the TeX format -- bplain and etex.  It's unlikely that the
majority of Debian users will want to be able to typeset German
using the ngerman.sty package with plain TeX.


    DK> Manually installing those hyphenation patterns is somewhat
    DK> inconvenient, as it requires the user to modify files in
    DK> the /usr/share/texmf directory and to regenerate the
    DK> format file using initex.

If we were to do anything about this situation, we would (and
probably should) move those files to /etc/texmf and make them
conffiles so they aren't overwritten every time a new version of
tetex-base is installed.

   CMC

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  C.M. Connelly               c@eskimo.com                   SHC, DS
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