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In article <1991Jan2.231520.21468@mtxinu.COM> jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:

   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.

There is nothing in the groff scheme that constrains `a^' to have the
same hyphenation code as `a'.  A hyphenation code can be any single
input character that isn't a digit or white space.  For example, you
could make the hyphenation code of `a^' (and `A^') the character which
is `a^' in ISO 8859-1.  You just have to make sure that the `hcode'
requests match the conventions that were used in the generation of the
hyphenation patterns.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp
jjc@ai.mit.edu