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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-01-14 17:44:39 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-01-14 17:44:39 +0000
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ithyph update (12jan07)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ithyph.tex b/Master/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ithyph.tex
index fa3ff5386e2..acc4027b20f 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ithyph.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ithyph.tex
@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@
% Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
% 10129 TORINO
%
-% Copyright 1998, 2004 Claudio Beccari
+% Copyright 1998, 2007 Claudio Beccari
%
-% This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
+% This program can be redistributed and/or modified either
+% 1) under the terms
% of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
% archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
-% version 1 of the License, or any later version.
+% version 1 of the License, or any later version,
+% 2) or under the terms of the Gnu Public Licence GPL 2,
+% whichever is most favorable.
%
-% \versionnumber{4.8e} \versiondate{2004/02/21}
+% \versionnumber{4.8f} \versiondate{2007/01/12}
%
% These hyphenation patterns for the Italian language are supposed to comply
% with the Recommendation UNI 6461 on hyphenation issued by the Italian
@@ -377,26 +380,6 @@ y1i
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Information %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
- ON ITALIAN HYPHENATION
-
-I have been working on patterns for the Italian language since 1987; in 1992
-I published
-
-C. Beccari, "Computer aided hyphenation for Italian and Modern
- Latin", TUG vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 23-33 (1992)
-
-which contained a set of patterns that allowed hyphenation for both Italian
-and Latin; a slightly modified version of the patterns published in the
-above paper is contained in LAHYPH.TEX available on the CTAN archives.
-
-
-This minor revision has been tested with an enlarged set of difficult Italian
-words so as to comply with a larger number of technical words with foreign
-roots. The overall number of patterns is slightly reduced, but its strength is
-increased. As with the previous release hyathi are not hyphenated in order to
-cope with the habits of Italian readers. Similarly single vowel internal
-syllables are avoided.
-
As the previous versions, this new set of patterns does not contain any
accented character so that the hyphenation algorithm behaves properly in
both cases, that is with OT1 and T1 encodings. With the former encoding
@@ -409,11 +392,12 @@ ation algorithm, while if you use OT1 encoded fonts you miss some possible
break points; this is not a big inconvenience in Italian because:
1) The Regulation UNI 6015 on accents specifies that compulsory accents
- appear only on the ending vowel of oxitone words; this means that it is
- almost indifferent to have or to miss the T1 encoded fonts because the
- only difference consists in how TeX evaluates the end of the word; in
- practice if you have these special facilities you get "qua-li-tà", while
- if you miss them, you get "qua-lità" (assuming that \righthyphenmin > 1).
+ appear only on the ending vowel of oxitone words (parole tronche); this
+ means that it is almost indifferent to have or to miss the T1 encoded
+ fonts because the only difference consists in how TeX evaluates the end
+ of the word; in practice if you have these special facilities you get
+ "qua-li-tà", while if you miss them, you get "qua-lità" (assuming that
+ \righthyphenmin > 1).
2) Optional accents are so rare in Italian, that if you absolutely want to
use them in those rare instances, and you miss the T1 encoding