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Re: [Groff] groff german hyphenation question


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff german hyphenation question
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:03:11 +0900 (JST)

> as far as I undestand the documentation hyphenation for syllables with
> german umlauts works only if the umlaut is directly written into the
> ASCII file (i.e. must be ä and not \(:a or \[:a]).

This is true for the file containing hyphenation patterns, but not for
normal text.

Regarding `Wässerchen': It is possible that this word wasn't in the
original word list used to create the hyphenation pattern, which might
explain missing hyphenation.  However, I haven't tested that by
myself.


    Werner

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