Re: [Groff] groff german hyphenation question

[Carsten Kunze]

> > 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.

So stringt substitution for umlauts should work too--that's very good.

> 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.

Do you know one word to test it? I tested with Kindergärten from the 
documentation--it dit not work for me:

.hla den
.hpf hyphen.den
.ll 11
Kinderg\(:arten

hyphenates as Kin-dergärten. With .ll 12 there ist no hyphenation. Or do I have 
to add .hcode requests by myself?

Second question: Do I have to write ".hla den" or ".hla de"? There is no error 
message in both cases and the documentation is not 100% clear.

Carsten