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+README file for the testhyphens package
+Copyright 2014-2015 Claudio Beccari
+LaTeX Project Public Licence LPPL v.1.3 (or later)
+
+The testhyphens package contains a few macros for printing out a word list with one word per line completely hyphenated as any LaTeX based TeX typesetting engine can do.
+
+Very useful for testing pattern sets with real texts.
+
+Installation
+
+Download testyhphens.dtx, manifest.txt and this file README in a directory in a branch of the TDS such as .../doc/latex/testhyphens/ if the folder does not exist, create it.
+The same named folder must be created in the TDS branch .../tex/latex/testhyphens/
+
+Be sure to have available all TeX system facilities for typesetting also in Greek. If you do not have them, upgrade your distribution.
+
+Run pdflatex on testhyphen.dtx; you get both testhyphens.sty and the documentation file testhyphens.pdf, plus some other service files that you can delete right away.
+
+Move testhyphens.sty to .../tex/latex/testhyphens/
+
+If necessary, rebuild the file name data bases with the facilities of your distribution.
+
+Before using, read carefully the documentation file testhyphens.pdf, because the package has some features that must be well known in detail. According to these features, this package was tested with pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex; due to the specialised use of this package functionalities, it is sufficient to use it with pdflatex, but in certain cases it may be necessary to use it with the other programs.
+
+
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+Manifest.txt (Version 0.7)
+Package testhyphens
+
+This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
+the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or
+(at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license
+is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/ and version 1.3c or later is
+part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2008/05/04 or later.
+
+This work itself and every derived work are subject to the above
+licence.
+
+This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained".
+
+This work consists of the files listed in manifest.txt
+
+This work consists of the following files:
+
+manifest.txt this file
+README basic description and instructions
+testhyphens.dtx auto-extracting documented TeX file
+testhyphens.pdf derived documentation in PDF format
+testhyphens.sty derived .sty file
+
+When you run pdflatex on texthyphens.dtx you get both the documentation and the package file.
+
+Attention: the .dtx contains also some tests in Greek; you can safely typeset the documentation only if you have the necessary TeX facilities for typesetting in Greek (packages and vector fonts); you certainly have them, if you have a complete installation of the TeX system.
+
+Maintainer: Claudio Beccari: claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com \ No newline at end of file
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+% \iffalse meta comment
+% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
+% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
+
+%<*internal>
+\begingroup
+\input docstrip.tex
+\keepsilent
+\preamble
+Copyright 2014 Claudio Beccari All rights reserved.
+
+ This system is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+This file is distributed under the LPPL licence, version 1.3c
+dated 2008-05-04 or later as it appears in
+CTAN/macros/latex/base/lppl.tex.
+See the end of the file.
+
+IMPORTANT NOTICE:
+
+You are allowed to distribute this file under the conditions that are
+specified in the source file testhyphens.dtx.
+
+If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain!
+
+You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone.
+You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use
+of either this file or a changed version, except for a nominal
+charge for copying, etc.
+\endpreamble
+\askforoverwritefalse
+%
+\generateFile{testhyphens.sty}{f}{\from{testhyphens.dtx}{package}}
+
+\def\tmpa{plain}
+\ifx\tmpa\fmtname\endgroup\expandafter\bye\fi
+\endgroup
+%</internal>
+% \fi
+%
+%% \CharacterTable
+%% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
+%% Lower-case \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z
+%% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9
+%% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
+%% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
+%% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
+%% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
+%% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
+%% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
+%% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
+%% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
+%% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
+%% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
+%% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
+% \iffalse
+%^^A The following trick uses the same date for every file header.
+%<package>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
+%<*driver>
+\ProvidesFile{testhyphens.dtx}[%
+%</driver>
+%<package>\ProvidesPackage{testhyphens}[%
+%<*driver,package>
+2015/11/23 v.0.7
+%<package>Prints list of hyphenated words]
+%</driver,package>
+%<*driver>
+]
+%</driver>
+%<*driver>
+\documentclass{ltxdoc}
+\GetFileInfo{testhyphens.dtx}
+ \title{The \textsf{testhyphens} package%
+ \thanks{This file
+ has version number \fileversion, last
+ revised on \filedate.}}
+ \author{Claudio Beccari\thanks{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}
+ \date{}
+ \providecommand\babel{\pack{babel}}
+ \newcommand\lbr{\char123\relax}\newcommand\rbr{\char125\relax}
+ \newenvironment{sintassi}{%
+ \begin{quote}\parskip0pt\hfuzz10pt\ttfamily\obeylines
+ }{%
+ \end{quote}\ignorespaces
+ }
+ \renewcommand*\meta[1]{{\normalfont\textlangle\textit{#1}\textrangle}}
+ \newcommand*\pack[1]{\textsf{#1}}
+ \newcommand*\prog[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+ \newcommand*\Arg[1]{{\normalfont\texttt{\{}\meta{#1}\texttt{\}}}}
+ \renewcommand*\oarg[1]{\texttt{[}\meta{#1}\texttt{]}}
+ \let\marg\Arg
+ \newcommand*\acro[1]{\expandafter\textsc\expandafter{\MakeLowercase{#1}}}
+ \usepackage{multicol}
+ \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{lmodern,textcomp}
+\usepackage[greek,italian,english]{babel}
+\usepackage{testhyphens}
+\begin{document}
+ \maketitle
+ \DocInput{testhyphens.dtx}
+\end{document}
+%</driver>
+% \fi
+%
+% \CheckSum{106}
+% \begin{abstract}
+% This small file implements some code that was already published on TUGboat,
+% but it is adapted to \LaTeX\ and it is enriched with other commands. It helps
+% those who create hyphenation patterns, as well normal \LaTeX\ users, to test
+% the correctness of the hyphenations of words lists. It works also with
+% \prog{xelatex} and \prog{lualatex}.
+% \end{abstract}
+%
+%{\columnseprule=0.4pt
+%\begin{multicols}{2}
+%\tableofcontents
+%\end{multicols}}
+%
+% \section{Introduction}
+%
+% This small package introduces the declaration |\testhyphens| and the environment
+% |checkhyphens|. The declaration is to be used within a group where the hyphenation
+% parameters may be optionally set to any specific value; it processes a list
+% of one or more space delimited words typesetting them one per line with hyphens
+% between every syllable.
+%
+% The language, the hyphenation rules of which are to be tested, may be the
+% default language before entering the group, or can be a language specified
+% with |\selectlanguage| within the group before activating the declaration:
+% this declaration could be set within a |\foreignlangeuage|\Arg{language}
+% argument or within the body of an |otherlanguage| environment.
+%
+% The environment |checkhyphens| accepts an optional argument to set the
+% hyphenation parameters, and a body consisting of a list
+% of one or more space separated words; if the
+% user just pastes a text copied from somewhere that included punctuation,
+% the punctuation signs are ignored, but are not taken off from the text.
+%
+% The main code was published long ago by Victor Eijkout, in ``The bag of
+% tricks'', \emph{TUGboat} 14.4 (1993), p. 424. He himself states that
+% that code was created by Jonathan Kew; Victor Eijkout just added an empty
+% |\discretionary{}{}{}|; the idea came to him from the code created by
+% Oliver Schoett that is used for the hyphenation exception list of TUGboat.
+% Credit for the code goes completely to the authors mentioned above; I just
+% added some sugar to use that code in \LaTeX\ documents for the benefit of
+% hyphenation pattern creators, and of regular users who want to know how a
+% certain word or the words of a certain sentence would be hyphenated by
+% \TeX\ and friends.
+%
+% Of course this package does not tell the whole truth: in fact \TeX\ and
+% friends hyphenate words only when certain conditions are met; these
+% conditions are stated in Appendix~H of the \TeX\-book, which is and remains
+% the primary reference for understanding the hyphenation process used by
+% \TeX\ and friends.
+
+% Sometimes the user complains that certain words are not hyphenated; the user
+% might use this package and find out that her/his words are regularly
+% hyphenated; then what's happening? Simply those conditions are not met.
+% Therefore the full understanding of the above mentioned Appendix~H is
+% fundamental before complaining about \TeX\ not working properly with
+% hyphenations and possibly before raising a bug notice.
+%
+% \section{Incompatibility with the previous version 0.5a}
+% I had to change some definitions within the body of this package in order
+% to avoid clashes mainly with the |french| language option of babel;
+% in facts that option declares most punctuation marls as active characters.
+% Unfortunately those characters receive global definitions, therefore they
+% remain active even when they should not perform any action.
+%
+% It is necessary to emphasize that the previous version used the colon as
+% a parameter separator; while, in order to avoid conflicts with |french|,
+% the parameter separator is a simple hyphen.
+%
+% Defining active characters when using |polyglossia| may produce other
+% incompatibilities that are easily circumvented by specifying languages
+% in a different order. In facts, if you specify languages as such
+%\begin{verbatim}
+%\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands]{italian}
+%\setotherlanguages{english,french}
+%\end{verbatim}
+% produces an error when |french| sets up its parameters for the UNICODE
+% apostrophe: the cause of this error derives from the use of the |italian| option
+% |babelshorthands|; of course if this option is not specified, no problems
+% arise. But if you interchange the declarations as in
+%\begin{verbatim}
+%\setotherlanguages{english,french}
+%\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands]{italian}
+%\end{verbatim}
+% no problems arise.
+%
+% \section{Usage}
+% This package has been tested with |pdflatex|, |xelatex|, and |lualatex|;
+% for |lualatex| a package |showhyphens| exists that marks the hyphen
+% points of an entire document with thin red vertical strokes at the
+% possible break points. The user may use the package s/he prefers by
+% taking into consideration her/his needs with respect with the features
+% and the functionalities of package |testhyphens| compared to those
+% of |showhyphens|.
+%
+% Remember that normal Plain \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ have available the command
+% |\showhyphens| but, differently from this package, such command works
+% only when the typesetting engine is |tex| or |pdftex|; moreover the result
+% appears on the console window and in the \texttt{.log} file and no written
+% record remains available to the user; for |xelatex| there was a workaround
+% provided by another package, but for some reasons it did not work in every
+% circumstance. This package |testhyphens|, on the opposite, prints the result
+% in the output document and works also with |xetex| as the typesetting engine.
+%
+% This simple package is loaded just with the usual statement
+% \begin{flushleft}
+%|\usepackage{testhyphens}|
+% \end{flushleft}
+%
+% The package defines for the end user one declaration |\testhyphens| and
+% one environment |checkhyphens| the syntax of which is the following:
+%\begin{sintassi}
+% |\begin{checkhyphens}|\oarg{hyphenation parameters}
+% \marg{word list}
+% |\end{checkhyphens}|
+%\end{sintassi}
+% where \meta{hyphenation parameters} is a \emph{hyphen separated list} of two
+% digits that in order will be assigned by the environment respectively to
+% |\lefthyphenmin| and |\righthyphenmin|; \meta{word list} is self
+% explanatory. Nevertheless it good to remember that the environment isolates
+% single words by using a space as a word separator; this requires that the
+% list is preceded and followed by spaces; setting the environment with the
+% opening and closing statements on single lines, as shown above, is sufficient,
+% while a source line such as
+% |\begin{checkhyphens}|\oarg{hyphenation parameters}\marg{word list}|\end{checkhyphens}|
+% might not produce the desired result.
+%
+% \section[Hyphenation parameters]{Using hyphenation parameters}
+% The hyphenation parameters are just |\lefthyphenmin| and |\righthyphenmin|;
+% they represent the minimum number of characters that the first and, respectively,
+% the last word fragment must have before or until hyphenation takes place;
+% for example in English the default values are 2 and~3; in Italian the default
+% values are 2 and~2; in Greek the default values are 1 and~1.
+%
+% Let us make an example: the word \emph{idea} is spelt the same in English and
+% Italian, although it is pronounced differently; but in both cases the word is
+% not hyphenated at all in both languages. According to the Italian hyphenation
+% rules its grammatical hyphenation is \emph{i-de-a}; possibly in English the
+% grammatical hyphenation is the same; in any case the initial and the terminal
+% syllables are too short to comply with the above mentioned \TeX\ hyphenation
+% parameters, and \TeX\ refrains from hyphenating this word. In Greek, on the
+% opposite, \foreignlanguage{greek}{ιδέα} is divided into
+% \foreignlanguage{greek}{ι-δέ-α}.
+%
+% If you use |checkhyphens| with the optional hyphenation parameters specified to
+% 1 and~1 in Italian or in English, as in
+%\begin{verbatim}
+%\begin{checkhyphens}[1-1]
+%idea
+%\end{checkhyphens}
+%\end{verbatim}
+% you don't get any useful result in English, and the word remains un-hyphenated;
+% but in Italian is turns out to be \emph{i-de-a} as in Greek.
+%
+% This happens because the Italian patterns were created by hand and tested with
+% parameters 1 and~1, even if for typesetting purposes the parameters are set
+% to 2 and~2. In English the patterns were created by means of the program
+% \prog{patgen} where parameters 2 and~3 were set. Typographically speaking
+% the values 1 and~1 for Italian are almost useless, but in certain difficult
+% narrow-measure texts the user has the possibility to locally set the first
+% and/or the second parameter to 1, and solve that particular instance of
+% problematic narrow-measure typesetting.
+%
+% \section{Examples}
+% Here we show some actual examples using either the declaration or the environment.
+% While typesetting in English we might verify the hyphenation of some words.
+% We set in the source file the following lines (notice the |\par| command is a reminder that the group containing the declaration must be used in vertical mode; a blank line would be equivalent):
+%\begin{verbatim}
+%\par
+%{\testhyphens
+%manifests instruments
+%he analyses the samples and submits the analyses to the federal office
+%}
+%\end{verbatim}
+% The result produced by this package, typeset within a four-column multicols environment, is:
+%
+%\begin{multicols}{4}{\testhyphens
+%manifests instruments
+%he analyses the samples and submits the analyses to the federal office
+%}\end{multicols}
+% Notice the two instances of the word |analyses|; \TeX\ hyphenates them the
+% same way in English, but one of the two is hyphenated in a wrong way;
+% unfortunately there is no way for \TeX\ to distinguish homographic words
+% that are not homophonic ones. In plain terms the verb ``analyses'' is stressed
+% on the `y', while the noun ``analyses'' is stressed on the second `a';
+% the standard phonetic hyphenation rules for English probably should hyphenate
+% the verb as ``an-a-lyses'', but \TeX\ works only on the spelling and not on
+% the sound and does not make any logical analysis of the text to find out
+% if a word plays the rôle of a noun or of a verb. In this and similar
+% situations (for example: ``the record'' and ``to record'') the user should
+% check a good reliable dictionary and possibly use an explicit discretionary
+% hyphen~|\-|.
+%
+% While typesetting in Italian it is possible to insert in the source file
+% a set of lines such as these:
+%\begin{verbatim}
+%\begin{checkhyphens}
+%ebbe la bell'idea di viaggiare in scooter
+%\end{checkhyphens}
+%\end{verbatim}
+% that produces the following result:
+%\begin{multicols}{4}
+%\begin{otherlanguage*}{italian}
+%\begin{checkhyphens}
+%ebbe la bell'idea di viaggiare in scooter
+%\end{checkhyphens}
+%\end{otherlanguage*}\end{multicols}
+%Notice that ``idea'' cannot be hyphenated by \TeX\ when it is an isolated
+% word; but in Italian the apostrophe is used (also) to mark a vocalic elision,
+% therefore for hyphenation purposes, even if it is not a letter, it is assigned
+% a lowercase code, and it legally becomes part of a word, in our case the word
+% ``bell'idea''. Therefore the patterns that involve the apostrophe produce
+% the result shown above, where the first grammatical hyphen point shows up again.
+%
+% While typesetting in Greek we might insert in the source file the following code:
+%\begin{flushleft}\ttfamily\obeylines
+%|\begin{checkhyphens}|
+%\begin{otherlanguage*}{greek}
+%επεξεργάζεται αρχεία τα οποία περιέχουν τουσ χαρακτήρες που
+% υπάρχουν στο πληκτρολόγιο του υπολογιστή σας
+%\end{otherlanguage*}
+%|\end{checkhyphens}|
+%\end{flushleft}
+%and we would get:
+%\begin{multicols}{4}
+%\begin{otherlanguage*}{greek}
+%\begin{checkhyphens}
+%επεξεργάζεται αρχεία τα οποία περιέχουν τουσ χαρακτήρες που υπάρχουν
+%στο πληκτρολόγιο του υπολογιστή σας
+%\end{checkhyphens}
+%\end{otherlanguage*}\end{multicols}
+%\noindent while, had we set the hyphenation parameters different from the default
+% values 1 and~1, as in:
+%\begin{flushleft}\ttfamily\obeylines
+%|\begin{checkhyphens}[2-2]|
+%\begin{otherlanguage*}{greek}
+%επεξεργάζεται αρχεία τα οποία περιέχουν τουσ χαρακτήρες που
+%υπάρχουν στο πληκτρολόγιο του υπολογιστή σας
+%\end{otherlanguage*}
+%|\end{checkhyphens}|
+%\end{flushleft}
+%the result would be:
+%\begin{multicols}{4}
+%\begin{otherlanguage*}{greek}
+%\begin{checkhyphens}[2-2]
+%επεξεργάζεται αρχεία τα οποία περιέχουν τουσ χαρακτήρες που υπάρχουν
+%στο πληκτρολόγιο του υπολογιστή σας
+%\end{checkhyphens}
+%\end{otherlanguage*}\end{multicols}
+%
+% Notice that as things are at the moment of writing this documentations,
+% the monotonic Greek hyphenation patterns fail to hyphenate after an
+% accented vowel followed by a consonant\footnote{My PDF file of this
+% documentations does not exhibit this feature, because I have available the
+% correct hyphenations patterns for the three Greek orthographic spellings, but
+% these are not yet officially available to the \TeX\ community because the Greek
+% maintainers have not yet finished testing them. You might be reading a
+% re-typeset version of this documentation, and this feature might be present.};
+% the grammar allows to hyphenate in that position; in any case the patterns
+% correctly recognise the hiatus between an accented vowel and an unaccented one.
+% The first Greek example shows very clearly the effect of |\lefthyphenmin=1|
+% compared to the second example where |\lefthyphenmin=2|. On the other hand,
+% the fact that some hyphen points are missing is certainly a feature that
+% precludes full hyphenation, but it does not produce hyphenation errors.
+%
+% For the user information it was the very use of this package that highlighted
+% the features/bugs in the Greek hyphenation patterns; at the moment of writing
+% this documentation, work is in progress for testing new hyphen sets. Notice
+% that this behaviour is present when typesetting with |pdflatex| and |babel|,
+% while these features are absent when |xelatex| or |lualatex| are used with
+% |polyglossia|.
+% \StopEventually{}
+%
+% \section{The code}
+%\iffalse
+%<*package>
+%\fi
+% The following code has very few modifications compared to the original code
+% published by Victor Eijkout. For my own benefit I changed the declaration
+% name from |\printhyphens| to |\t@sthyphens|; with an at-sign internal name
+% it is less likely that the declaration is redefined by a user. I also moved
+% the command |\offinterlineskip| from its penultimate position in the original
+% code to the first command to be executed within the |\vbox|; in this way
+% I avoided certain cases in which the lack of interline skip would remain
+% active after closing the environment.
+%
+% The code is based on treating the interword space as an active character
+% that plays different rôles according to its position; it lets the
+% declaration isolate the words to be hyphenated and open suitable boxes,
+% that are closed at the moment of processing the following word; the
+% |\everypar| token-list distinguishes the various actions to be performed
+% at each step.
+%
+% But the trick is to set each word within a vertical box where the measure
+% (the text width |\hsize|) is zero; in this way each word is hyphenated at
+% the first hyphen point, but the word fragment that remains in the following
+% line is still too long and gets hyphenated again; the process is repeated
+% again and again until the initial string is exhausted. The contents of the
+% |\vbox|, that now contains the syllables one per line, is reassembled to
+% form one line, and this line is output within an |\hbox| and is therefore
+% the box typeset in vertical mode; this is why the declaration must be issued
+% in vertical mode, so as to start processing the word list with the right
+% foot; this is also why the word list must start and end with spaces; the
+% first one before the first word opens the first box, and the last space after
+% the last word closes and outputs the last box.
+% \begin{macrocode}
+\def\t@sthyphens{\everypar{\setbox0\lastbox \setbox1\hbox{\strut}\vbox\bgroup
+\offinterlineskip
+\everypar{\setbox0\lastbox \nobreak\hskip\z@}\dimen0=\hsize
+\hsize=\z@ \hfuzz\maxdimen \def\par{\endgraf \hsize=\dimen0\getlastline
+\egroup\endgraf}}\breakafterword}
+
+\def\breakafterword{\catcode`\^^M\active\catcode`\ \active}
+
+{\breakafterword\gdef^^M{\par}\global\let ^^M}
+
+\def\getlastline{\setbox0\lastbox\ifvoid0\let\next\nomorelines
+\else\unskip\unpenalty\setbox1\hbox{\unhbox0\strut\discretionary{}{}{}%
+\unhbox1}\let\next\getlastline\fi\next}
+
+\def\nomorelines{\unhbox1}
+% \end{macrocode}
+% The above code is substantially the original one; now we define the user
+% declaration control sequence |\testhyphens| by letting it to assume the
+% meaning of the internal control sequence. Then we define the |checkhyphens|
+% environment where we make sure that the whole process of the word list
+% contained in its body takes place in vertical mode. In oder to process
+% the optional argument for setting the hyphenation parameters, we define
+% a delimited argument macro |\s@thyphenpars| that uses the \emph{hyphen} as
+% argument delimiter.
+% \begin{macrocode}
+\let\testhyphens\t@sthyphens
+
+\newenvironment{checkhyphens}[1][\lefthyphenmin-\righthyphenmin]{%
+\@tempcnta=\lefthyphenmin
+\@tempcntb=\righthyphenmin
+\s@thyphenpars[#1]\par\bgroup\t@sthyphens
+}{%
+\egroup\par
+}
+
+\def\s@thyphenpars[#1-#2]{%
+\@tempcnta=#1\relax
+\@tempcntb=#2\relax
+\unless\ifnum\@tempcnta=\lefthyphenmin \lefthyphenmin=\@tempcnta\fi
+\unless\ifnum\@tempcntb=\righthyphenmin \righthyphenmin=\@tempcntb\fi
+}
+% \end{macrocode}
+%\iffalse
+%</package>
+%\fi
+% That's all. Happy \TeX\-ing.
+%\Finale
+\endinput
+
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