Bug#942807: tex-common: Cannot include hyphenation patterns with etex
Hi Markus,
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> \input ngerman.sty
Are you sure that ngerman.sty can be used with etex? It doesn't look
like ...
But you can definitely use different languages:
\uselanguage{ngerman}
...
> and hence the hyphens I'm after do get loaded. I don't see any definition of
> l@ngerman, though, and sure enough, the the normal TeX run then says:
Because etex is not latex ...
> etex etex language.def -etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx etex.ini
>
> in an /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01etex.cnf. This doesn't change anything but gives,
> on update-fmtutil, a big warning with the explanation
Yes, you shouldn't do that.
> So: is there any way to have non-English hyphenation patterns with
> stretch etex (where at least my etex is linked to pdftex)? Am I
> missing something fundamental?
Usage of languages are different in etex and latex, you cannot use
ngerman.sty - or at least not as is.
Best
Norbert
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