Bug#195808: plain tex, ngerman.sty, and German hyphenation.

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hello,

again a couple of months have passed...


frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:

> Dear Andreas,
>
> last summer you reported this bug, and it hasn't been resolved since
> then. I guess you also haven't found a solution yet? 
[...]
> And what I take out from gerdoc.dvi is that plain TeX doesn't use
> language.dat, but instead hyphen.tex. This is USenglish in the first
> place, and one has to rename it and create a new one that loads both the
> renamed ushyphen.tex, and the german patterns. After that, the format
> has to be regenerated.
>
> An alternative seems to be to change /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf to
> enable babel for plain TeX (it's explained in the file). Or you use etex
> and language.def

Did any of these approaches help you?  If not, we should investigate
further, if yes we can close this bug.

> Does that help you? Note that currently
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex is _not_ regarded as a
> configuration file and will be overwritten if tetex-base is upgraded. We
> should probably change this...

Thinking about it again, it doesn't seem as if making hyphen.tex a
conffile is a good idea, or changing it at all.  Using babel (plain.ini)
in 00tetex.cnf is a viable alternative, and there's not need to treat
hyphen.tex as a conffile.

Thank you in advance, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer