Re: french hyphenation patterns

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:03:39PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> [CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.]
> 
> I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with
> LaTeX under Debian.  Most everything seems to work properly if I use
> something like the following for my LaTeX file:
> 
>     \documentclass{article}
> 
>     \usepackage{t1enc}
>     \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>     \usepackage[french]{babel}
> 
>     \begin{document}
> 
>     Insensiblement nous tombons dans des situations périlleuses, dont nous
>     pouvions aisément nous garantir, mais dont nous ne pouvons plus nous
>     tirer sans des efforts héroïques qui nous effaryent, et nous tombons
>     enfin dans l'abîme en disant à Dieu : << Pourquoi m'as-tu fait si
>     faible ? >> Mais malgré nous il répond à nos consciences : << Je t'ai
>     fait trop faible pour sortir du gouffre, parce que je t'ai fait assez
>     for pour n'y pas tomber. >>
> 
>     \end{document}
> 
> However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly.  I get the following
> output from TeX:
> 
>     blp:~/frn420(0)$ latex \\nonstopmode\\input explication.tex
>     This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
>     LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
>     Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995
>     Loading SK hyphenation patterns: Jana Chlebikova, 1992
>     (explication.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>     Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/switch.def))
>     (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
> 
>     Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
>     (babel)                the language `French'
>     (babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
> 
>     )) (explication.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1]
>     (explication.aux) )
>     Output written on explication.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
>     Transcript written on explication.log.
> 
> The "No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language `French'" is
> the part that worries me.  I've consulted the documentation on this
> issue, but it seems to say that if `french' is turned on in
> /etc/texmf/language.dat (which it certainly seems to be) then French
> hyphenation patterns should get loaded.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Well, this is no help, but I ran your snippet here locally and it worked
fine.  (Debian Unstable, last update about 2 days ago)

I've only made 1 modification to the stock install, and that was to
enable the ConTeXt formats.

$ latex frenchy
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(frenchy.tex
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) (frenchy.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1] (frenchy.aux) )
Output written on frenchy.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
Transcript written on frenchy.log.


-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>