On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:31:35PM +0100, Matej Vela wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 04:18:08PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > I was asked today how to enable foreign language syllable division > > rules for manpages. Can you give me a hint or an idea to look > > at? > > Take the corresponding TeX hyphenation file (eg. from > /usr/lib/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/), remove or comment out everything > but the contents of the \patterns macro, and save it as > /usr/share/groff/tmac/hyphen.<LANGUAGE>. > > Then change /usr/share/groff/tmac/troffrc (the ``.do hla'' line and > the ``.do hpf'' line) so that it uses the newly created hyphenation > patterns.
And then, if it works, send it to me, or raise a wishlist bug to groff, so I'll se to include in the package. fab
