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% language.us (and the start of language.dat)
% - initial hyphenation patterns.
% Created long ago by Sebastian Rahtz and others. Public domain.
-%
-% language.us is concatenated with the other language.*.dat files
-% desired by the user to create language.dat. You can use
-% texconfig generate language -local /some/file to make local additions.
+%
+% DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE (language.dat)! It is generated by tlmgr by
+% concatenating language.us with entries from the various packages.
%
% The premade texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat (where you might be
-% reading this) in the distribution is a copy of this concatenation with
+% reading this) in the distribution is a copy of this generated file with
% all languages enabled. It is used when the user asks to run live
% (install option R).
%
+% To enable or disable languages, there are two options:
+% - if the language is provided by a TeX Live package, you can
+% (un)install the corresponding package using tlmgr. Examples:
+% tlmgr install hyphen-french
+% tlmgr remove hyphen-english
+% - in any case, you can use a local configuration file:
+% TEXMFLOCAL/tex/generic/config/language-local.dat
+% with the same format as the present file, then regenerate this file
+% and rebuild the formats. See the manual of tlmgr (try 'man tlmgr'
+% or 'texdoc tlmgr'), section "generate" for details.
+%
% The preferred comment for actual language lines is %!. Do not use %!
% for textual comments like this. This is to be able to separate
% textual comments from commented-out language in such a way that
-% automatic parsing by programs is possible, so that
+% automatic parsing by programs is possible, so that
% we can present the user with `all possible languages'.
%
% *PLEASE*, keep english as the default (first) here, and let it refer