Re: International (8 bit clean) troff proposal

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From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 23:15

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In article <JJC.90Dec31140544@jclark.jclark.UUCP> jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
 > 
 > would give `\(^a' (the name for `a' with a circumflex accent) a
 > hyphenation code of `a'.  Groff uses the same hyphenation algorithm
 > that TeX does (invented by Frank Liang): the hyphenation process is
 > controlled by a set of hyphenation patterns; letters in the patterns
 > are interpreted as hyphenation codes.  By supplying an appropriate
 > file of patterns and set of `hcode' requests, it should be possible to
 > make groff correctly hyphenate languages other than English.

Not necessarily. This depends on the rules of the language.  The
hyphenation rules might threat the ``a^'' completely different then
an ``a'' for a given language. In that case, mapping is not good
enough.


	jaap

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Subject: Re: International (8 bit clean) troff proposal
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