UKenglish hyphenation patterns don't work with babel

[Torsten Bronger]

Binary package hint: texlive-base

After having installed "texlive-lang-ukenglish", I had to change the file /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat in the following way:

ukenglish ukhyphen.tex
=british
=UKenglish

I had to append the last two lines. Otherwise, babel wouldn't switch to UK hyphenation patterns properly because it doesn't know "ukenglish" but only "british" and UKenglish".

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

Hi dear TeX Live Team, especially the babel masters,

on Ubuntu the following bug was filed:

On Mi, 18 Jun 2008, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> After having installed "texlive-lang-ukenglish", I had to change the
> file /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat in the
> following way:
>
> ukenglish ukhyphen.tex
> =british
> =UKenglish
>
> I had to append the last two lines. Otherwise, babel wouldn't switch to
> UK hyphenation patterns properly because it doesn't know "ukenglish" but
> only "british" and UKenglish".

Is this still true? Does babel expect british or UKenglish?

That would effect TL2008, too!!

Thanks for any comments!

Best wishes

Norbert

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Norbert Preining <email address hidden> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <email address hidden> Debian TeX Group
gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLENTIES (pl.n.)
Series of small steps by which someone who has made a serious tactical
error in a conversion or argument moves from complete disagreement to
wholehearted agreement.
   --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

[Xavier Gnata (xavier-gnata-gmail)]

On a fresh intrepid install (not an update), I get this:
test.tex:0: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for(babel) the language `French'(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

Looks like hyphenation is fully broken on intrepid.

sudo update-language
sudo fmtutil-sys --all

do not help.

I hope that there is an easy fix/workaroud because latex without hyphenation is something not really usable.

Xavier

[Xavier Gnata (xavier-gnata-gmail)]

Oups sorry for the noise.
Please ignore my last comment.

[vocx (eliudcabrera)]

I can confirm this bug also for "texlive-lang-spanish" in Ubuntu 8.10
    texlive-base: 2007.dfsg.1-2
    texlive-lang-spanish: 2007.dfsg.3-2

The relevant part of /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-spanish.cnf
spanish xu-eshyph.tex
=espanol
catalan cahyph.tex
galician xu-glhyph.tex

Can anyone give us an update? What's going on with this problem?
Is there a workaround to manually set the hyphenation patterns?

[Sur (sur00mx)]

I just had to reinstall texlive-lang-spanish. I works perfectly now.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

\usepackage[english]{babel} works
\usepackage[english,british]{babel} works
\usepackage[english,british,UKenglish]{babel} works

Other combinations - just british or just UKenglish do not work. I don't know what the expected and correct behavior.

Fix your latex documents????

[vocx (eliudcabrera)]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, I reinstalled "texlive-lang-spanish" and it didn't seem to work either.

But weeks later I manually ran

    sudo fmtutil --all

and now it works fine.

I say there are some bugs with the Debian scripts that are run when installing the "texlive-*" packages, but I guess not many people can confirm it.

Since this bug hasn't had much activity I guess it may be a non-issue after all.

Besides, Texlive 2008 is already out, and with the new package manager things may be different from now on.

[jordilin (jordilin)]

Just to confirm what user vocx says. I've had the same problem and spanish hyphen was not loaded after having installed texlive-lang-spanish. After running sudo fmtutil --all works fine and loads spanish and catalan :). What is surprising is that MiKTeX for Win Vista does have the same problem.

[kavkar (kavkar)]

Same:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `Magyar'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

[kavkar (kavkar)]

And 'sudo fmtutil --all' isn't helped me...

[kavkar (kavkar)]

Sorry, My fault. Now work.
Bye.

[Anna SdG (anna-granudd)]

Had the same issue with Swedish. Running
sudo aptitude install texlive-lang-swedish
and then
sudo fmtutil --all
does seem to do the trick, however I'd still consider this a bug... Thanks jordilin for the tip! :)

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

I confim Anna's fix for texlive-lang-italian, and I confirm it's still a bug...