Re: minor hyphenation issue

[Dave Kemper]

Thanks, everyone, for your thoughtful comments on this.  I appreciate
that the quality of overall hyphenation could be improved by starting
afresh -- and it'd be great if someone could make that happen someday
-- but my request is much more modest, and I think can be brought
about without nearly that much overhead.

On 4/19/17, Barbara Beeton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I believe that the tex patterns
> cannot be augmented with non-ascii letters.  that is not to say that
> a *second* list, say ushyphex8.tex, couldn't be created for use by
> the "extended" versions of tex that accommodate the larger set
> of letters.

Perhaps herein lies the solution I seek.  Maybe the English
hyphenation patterns could be kept in a master list that includes all
letters, including non-ASCII ones, that appear in English words; then
this list could be filtered before being fed to classic TeX, so that
it sees only the all-ASCII entries?  If the entries appear one per
line, a single grep command could do this preprocessing.  What do you
think?