[Groff] Re: Hyphenation in German

[Ulf Bro]

Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 09:47 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:

> Use the attached files.

Thank you!!! It works.

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and:

> hcode ä ä  Ä ä
> hcode ö ö  Ö ö
> hcode ü ü  Ü ü
> hcode ß ß

Believe it or not, as I added these four lines directly into to my test groff 
file it worked too, 
with my own latin-1 coded hyphenation pattern which seems to be quite similar 
to yours (probably identical). Actually I had read about .hcode, but I didn't 
understand what it was there for. (I still don't understand it, but I can 
live with that).

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Now, a tiny little problem: I have saved the tmac.de and hyphen.den into the 
.../tmac/ directory, but groff answers: "can't find hyphenation patterns 
file..."

then instead of the line

.hpf hyphen.den

I must use the line

.hpf /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/tmac/hyphen.den

On the other hand this also doesn't solve the problem since groff doesn't even 
find the tmac.de file, meaning that I have to embed the contents of this file 
into my text document.

All of the other configuration and a lot of macor files reside in this 
directory and seem to become found by groff, just not this one file. How can 
that be? 

Ulf