Re: [Groff] .hw request and composite words in germanic languages

[Werner LEMBERG]

An additional comment:

> Anyway, some times such words need to be hyphenated. E.g., the word
> 'tillåta' should be hyphenated 'till-låta'. The maintainer of the
> TeX Swedish hyphenation file claims that his patterns covers this.

I doubt this.  It is possible that the TeX patterns disable
hyphenation there, i.e., the pattern is only tillå-ta, but it is not
possible to insert a \descretionary command into hyphenation patterns.
Maybe you have to say ti"llåta, similar to German's active `"'
character to get the proper behaviour.


    Werner