At 2025-02-04T22:15:47+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > In other words, hyphenation language setting is not local > > to the environment... > > But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
Yes it would!
Uh-oh! My puzzler was somewhat defective. The French hyphenation
patterns never got loaded because the localization file never got
sources. (I see that onf has since made a similar observation.)
Here is a better demonstrator. Or pair thereof.
$ cat EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff
.sp
.ce 1
A Study in Redheads
.sp
.ev epigram
.mso fr.tmac
.ad r
Une chose acheva de confirmer Martin dans ses d\['e]testables principes,
de faire h\['e]siter plus que jamais Candide et d'embarrasser Pangloss.
.br
\[em] Voltaire
.br
.ev
.sp
My life is spent in one tedious effort to escape from the
\f[I]principes\f[] of existence.
These little problems help me to do so.
$ diff -u EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff
EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge2.groff
--- EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff 2025-02-05
00:35:58.361937725 -0600
+++ EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge2.groff 2025-02-05
00:36:02.465925986 -0600
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
A Study in Redheads
.sp
.ev epigram
-.mso fr.tmac
.ad r
-Une chose acheva de confirmer Martin dans ses d\['e]testables principes,
-de faire h\['e]siter plus que jamais Candide et d'embarrasser Pangloss.
+Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi
.br
-\[em] Voltaire
+simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
+.br
+\[em] Horace
.br
.ev
.sp
And the respective outputs:
---snip--
$ ~/groff-1.23.0/bin/nroff EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge.groff|cat
-s
A Study in Redheads
Une chose acheva de confirmer Martin dans ses détestables prin‐
cipes, de faire hésiter plus que jamais Candide et d’embarrasser
Pangloss.
— Voltaire
My life is spent in one tedious effort to escape from the prin‐
cipes of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
$ ~/groff-1.23.0/bin/nroff EXPERIMENTS/multilingual-trivia-challenge2.groff|cat
-s
A Study in Redheads
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi
simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
— Horace
My life is spent in one tedious effort to escape from the
principes of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
---end snip---
Regards,
Branden
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