Will Robertson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 03/03/2010, at 3:44 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >> I believe this should be integrated into the LaTeX/babel kernel, but > >> we've still got the problem that the babel test suite has not yet been > >> integrated into the 2e SVN repository. > >> > >> Is there any way around this impasse? > > > > For our case, we can install the patched hyphen.cfg under luatex > > specific path, e.g. tex/luatex/babel/hyphen.cfg. So other engines won't > > see it meaning less risk for melting the precious latex freeze. > > This would be a good solution, but it's doubtful that the CTAN > maintainers would allow such a file in their network (correct me if > I'm wrong, Robin). a simple file hyphen.cfg _could_ be difficult. (we disallow things on the basis of what would go on in the "simple mind" if they saw it, but we already have 2007/06/28 | 2185 | language/french/frenchpro/french/initex/hyphen.cfg 1995/02/08 | 1059 | macros/latex/contrib/cmcyralt/hyphen.cfg 1999/01/09 | 1059 | macros/latex/contrib/lhcyr/lhcyralt/hyphen.cfg 1999/01/09 | 1060 | macros/latex/contrib/lhcyr/lhcyrkoi/hyphen.cfg 1999/01/09 | 1059 | macros/latex/contrib/lhcyr/lhcyrwin/hyphen.cfg 2005/05/08 | 5630 | systems/omega/contrib/antomega/omega/lambda/antomega/hyphen.cfg so we would need to temper our disapproval ;-) put it on macros/luatex (or whatever the dir is) would improve the situation. disguise it in (say) a .dtx file luatex_hyphen.dtx would be ideal. robin