Jitse Niesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 5 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with
> > LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly [...]
> > However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following
> > output from TeX:
> > [...]
> > Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
> > (babel) the language `French'
> > (babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
> > instead.
> > [...]
>
> You need to build a new so-called format file which includes the
> hyphenation patterns for French. To do so, run the program 'texconfig' (as
> root), choose the option hyphen and uncomment the line about French, ie.
> remove the percent sign in front of the lines:
>
> french frhyphen
> =patois
>
> All should fine afterwards. Please feel free to ask if the above is not
> clear or does not work.
Thanks for the suggestion. When I go to do this, I find that
there are similar lines already in the file:
% French, TWO lines!
french frhyph.tex
=patois
So I modified the whitespace in the file a little to force
texconfig to rebuild the formats. It then did rebuild
them. However, even then hyphenation doesn't work properly--I
still get the same error message as above.
Just to see if it would make a difference, I downgraded the tetex
packages to the latest stable versions (I normally run
bleeding-edge unstable) but nothing changed.
Any further suggestions?
--
"There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you.
And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be."
--Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_
