Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!jaap From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: International (8 bit clean) troff proposal Message-ID: <1991Jan2.231520.21468@mtxinu.COM> Date: 2 Jan 91 23:15:20 GMT References: <1990Dec27.155046.14520@cbnewsl.att.com> Reply-To: jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 17 In article jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes: > > would give `\(^a' (the name for `a' with a circumflex accent) a > hyphenation code of `a'. Groff uses the same hyphenation algorithm > that TeX does (invented by Frank Liang): the hyphenation process is > controlled by a set of hyphenation patterns; letters in the patterns > are interpreted as hyphenation codes. By supplying an appropriate > file of patterns and set of `hcode' requests, it should be possible to > make groff correctly hyphenate languages other than English. Not necessarily. This depends on the rules of the language. The hyphenation rules might threat the ``a^'' completely different then an ``a'' for a given language. In that case, mapping is not good enough. jaap