Re: [Groff] Portuguese hyphenation file?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm in sudden need of a hyphenation file for Portuguese (Brazilian
> if it matters). One of my work projects is going to the translators,
> and that's the only missing piece I'm aware of at the moment.

1. Get Portuguese patterns from CTAN, e.g.:

     
http://ctan.mackichan.com/language/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-pt.pat.txt

2. Convert this file to latin1 (with iconv, for example) and name it
   `hyphen.pt'.

3. Enclose everything in the file with

     \patterns { ... }

4. Create a file `pt.tmac' (in latin-1 encoding) which looks
   approx. like this:

    .\" Default encoding
    .mso latin1.tmac
    .
    .
    .\" Portuguese hyphenation
    .ss 12 0
    .hy 8
    .hcode é é  É é
    .hcode á á  Á á
    <...more hcode entries...>
    .
    .hla pt
    .hpf hyphen.pt


   Werner