Bug#388788: Adding hyphenations of new languages is nothing but a major pain in the hindquarters
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 17:31 +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> I also installed packages texlive-lang-french and texlive-lang-italian .
> A file called /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat was not
> properly generated.
In what sense was it not properly generated? How did you determin that?
> I run update-languages by hand. After that it had
> wrong permissions, beacause root has umask 077. I made it
> world-readable.
Actually this should not matter as long as root can read the file, since
it is only used when format files are created, which is almost only done
by root.
> But now running latex looks like this:
>
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> Source specials enabled.
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, finnish, ukenglish, loaded.
>
>
> Where is that Italian and French? Later I see this:
You did not recreate the format files hence the changes to language.dat
did not have any effect.
> Aargh! What is the canonical way to activate hyphenations and other
> language support of desired languages for LaTeX and friends?
Normally the texlive-lang-* packages do this automatically. That looks
like a bug worth investigating. Otherwise,
# update-languages
followed by
# fmutil-sys --all
should regenerate all format files with hyphenation enabled based on the
configuration files in /etc/texmf/language.d/. If that does not help,
then we will need some more informations for debugging.
cheerio
ralf
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