[xep-support] Re:Hyphenation in XEP

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Hi Gustaf,

> I tried to help on this one, but I got stuck myself. I downloaded
> frhyph.tex from CTAN to my /hyphen folder, and added it to my hyphens.xml
> file. No result. Then I tried Norwegian with no problem. Exactly what is
> the difference? None of them use more than ISO 8859-1, so the
> dittocodes.xml file should work for both, shouldn't it?

French uses OE/oe ligatures, absent in ISO 8859-1. When porting frhyph.tex
to XEP, I used WinAnsi (aka Windows-1250), and added a recoding table.
If you'd like to have it, just let me know off-list. 

In any case, XEP 3.0 will have hyphenation patterns for English, French, 
German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian in the default distribution. We
are also considering other languages; the problem is that we cannot reliably
access the hyphenation quality. If you (or anyone else on the list) has
a hyphenation table tested to give satisfactory results with XEP,
and are willing to share it for inclusion into XEP 3, we will appreciate
it very much. (There is a complication, however: the original TeX file
should have a license permitting its inclusion into a commercial bit
of software. The majority of TeX tables do permit such usage; yet many 
are GPLed).

Regards,
Nikolai

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