Bug#399447: tetex-base: Latex hyphenation is wrong

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 18:31 -0500, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The default hyphenation in latex is wrong.  In the latex
> document below, the word "groups" is hyphenated "g-rou-ps", which is
> ludicrous.  The hyphenation in the plain tex format is normal, at
> least for this word.
> 
> Workaround: use the "babel" package.
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> ##################################
> minimal input file
> 
> \showhyphens{groups}
> \documentclass{article}
> \showhyphens{groups}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \showhyphens{groups}
> \end{document}
> ######################################

I cannot reproduce this. Using your example file, the output from LaTeX
looks like this

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, ibycus, loaded.


(./hyphen.tex
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 1--1
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 groups
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 3--3
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 groups
(./hyphen.aux)
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 6--6
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 groups
(./hyphen.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on hyphen.log.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

So LaTeX does not find an hyphenation point in 'groups', which I think
is correct. Could you please post the LaTeX's output when running on
your example? In addition, please sent us the output of

kpsewhere language.dat

Thanks.

cheerio
ralf