Re: [Groff] german localization

[Bernd Warken]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:03:33PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> So, to make my point yet again, we should have all the
> rules we might ever need!
> 
Fine.

> And please don't forget that all writing has a potential
> "meta-writing" function: you may wish to cite a passage
> done in the Old Rules, and again with the New Rules, just
> to show how they may differ -- writing about writing.
> 
> In fact, Bernd, you just did that, above.
> 
> Or -- will what you just did no longer be tolerated
> after 2005?
> 
> If there could be a reason for doing it, then I think
> groff should give us the resources to do it if we wish to.

At the Gutenberg project, people want to start editing German books.
There might be both editions for the 1901 and the 1998 orthography.
When using groff for this there should be an easy method to switch
between both hyphenations methods without having to remember the 
details of both sets.  

German orthography is very picky about a correct hyphenation, much more 
than English is.

Bernd Warken