[xep-support] French hyphenation bug ?

[Keith - Parenty Reitmeier Inc.]

We are a multilingual company and we too have been experiencing bad  
hyphenation in the French language since XEP 4. I requested support  
on this issue some time ago and was asked to provide sample FO files  
and explanations regarding improperly hyphenated words.  
Unfortunately, I never got around to doing this and the problem is  
still not resolved.

I am 100% sure that the patterns file is being called properly,  
because I can add hyphenation exceptions to the file and they will  
hyphenate correctly in the next render. The only problem is that if I  
were to fix all the incorrect hyphenation this way I could easily end  
up with hundreds of exceptions and a bloated TeX patterns file.

I even tried grabbing the patterns file from CTAN and re-working it  
for XEP, same outcome.

I don’t know if it's an issue of XEP3 hyphenating correctly and XEP4  
not. If you try using the same patterns file for both, there is much  
more hyphenation present when processing with 4 rather than 3. Is it  
a problem with XEP4? Or could it be that there was always something  
wrong with the the patterns file?

I hope you find the solution to this problem and post it here. Until  
then, we will continue to use XEP3 for French and XEP4 for everything  
else.

Regards,
Keith

On 19-Jan-07, at 11:50 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> Last year I found something strange in french hyphenation result.
>
> The word administrateur is cut like admi-nistrateur (the correct  
> cut is
> admin-istrateur). An other exemple, the word Panther is cut like
> Pa-nther (the correct cut is Pan-ther).
>
> I am sure that all my file have the xml:lang="fr" déclaration :
>
> <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:lang="fr"
> xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" version="5.0">
>
> I used a bad workaround : adding a non-breaking before each bad
> hyphenation result.
>
> But I really would like to find a real solution.
>
> I suppose I'm not alone with that.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Jacques
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