Re: [Groff] Spanish Hyphenation

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Hello,

Yves Cloutier <address@hidden> wrote:
 |I am wondering if anyone would have the spanish hyphenation pattern file
 |hyphen.es or point me to where i would be able to find this file?
 |
 |I have read a few threads about implementing spanish hyphenation patterns
 |but am still at a loss.
 |
 |Some reference hyphen.es, some reference eshyph.tex, and that the
 |hyphenation file should be in the groff/tmac folder.
 |
 |I have downloaded eshyph.tex but this does not seem to work.
 |
 |As well, I do not have a groff/tmac folder, though I do have:
 |
 |/usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac
 |
 |Any pointers would be much appreciated.

I have (i was used to run a very old version of groff that didn't
ship with the files) the following in one of my .tmac's:

  .hla de
  .hpf hyphen.de
  .hpfa hyphenex.de

This gets me going (hyphen.de and hyphenex.de can be found in the
$GROFF_TMAC_PATH, as well, see `man groff', section
`ENVIRONMENT').  Here, hyphen.de contains TeX \patterns{..} which
look like `.aa6l .ab3a4s' etc. and hyphenex.de contains mostly
\hyphenation{..} overwrites, as in `AIDS % AI-DS', which makes me
assume the `ex' suffix means `exceptions' indeed.  So you need the
generic patterns which feed in the algorithm, and may have
exceptions which tweak the result of it where it fails.
That's all i know :)

--steffen