On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:25:44PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:12:25PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > > > > > What about the approach we used in etex.src; redefining \patterns and > > > > \hyphenation to use corresponding lua functions, so we don't need to > > > > duplicate hyphenation files and, AFAIU, solves the catcode issue. > > > > > > \patterns is not read by Lua but by TeX, thus the catcode > > > problem remains. > > > > I don't claim that I understand anything, but do we have some example > > for the likes of me to see the problem? > > * verbatim mode > * babel shorthands > * other active characters > * ... A more concrete example showing such an issue would greatly make testing much either, I, apparently, don't know enough catcodes black magic to come with such a test file myself. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer