Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tetex-base (2.0.2a-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * By default, enable all hyphenation patterns in language.dat [frank] > > -- Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:55:50 +0200 > > Frank, I really don't understand why you think including all > hyphenanation patterns by default should be requested from teTeX > maintainers in the past. > > First of all languages.dat is a config file you knew about. Also I > remember that LaTeX was always proud to need only very little resources > such as RAM. And I also never assumed that one little project needing > minor changes would influence a large package such as tetex.
debian-reference was by no means the reason for this switch. Instead, the reasons were, IIRC: - many users found it hard to find the right place for this configuration, and furthermore didn't know they needed to recreate the formats afterwards - the code which we provided to make configuration of hyphenation patterns more user-friendly turned out to be error-prone - other TeX distributions also enable all available hyphenation patterns - it was reported that although the format generation takes longer, the effect during normal LaTeX runs is very small - and for the users that want to optimize even this, language.dat is still a conffile (in fact now this has changed again, and the conffile ist /etc/texmf/language.d/00tetex.cnf) > And the most important reason was always that a config file can be > changed by users so that it was the easiest way to ensure all > requirements myself. During package build, it is not easy to do this, and also slow. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
