Re: [Groff] german localisation

[joerg van den hoff]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>  
>
> > question: is there a canonical way to transform the original tex 
> > hyphenation pattern files to groff compatible versions without knowing  
> > how to do macro expansion and the like in the tex files?
> >    
>
> No.  Most TeX pattern files can now be used as-is, but the German
> patterns are an exception.
>
>  
>
> > is there a awk or perl script around to do so? or are groff
> > compatible hyphenation pattern files (except for us english)
> > somewhere around (I did'nt find any)?
> >    
>
> It's quite easy, just use the following sed expressions within the
> \patterns group:
>
>  s/\n{\(.*\)}/\1/
>  s/\c{.*}//
>  s/"a/ä/
>  s/"o/ö/
>  s/"u/ü/
>  s/\3/ß/
>
> (actually, you can use it for the whole file, but it looks a bit
> strange then\).
>
>
>    Werner
>  
thank you very much. apart from the umlaut-substitution, the script is 
to extract the pattern from all blank separated constructs starting 
literally with "\n" and enclosing the pattern in {}, and should 
remove"\c" constructs, right? if so, I think the script should read

sed -e '
s/\\c{[a-zA-Z0-9".\]*}//g
s/\\n{\([a-zA-Z0-9".\]*\)}/\1/g
s/"a/ä/g
s/"o/ö/g
s/"u/ü/g
s/\\3/ß/g


1. the substitution needs to be global if the input has more than one 
pattern per line (as is the case for the 'dehyph[nt].tex' I  found on 
some server.
2. the backslashes have to be masked in front of [nc3]
3.  ".*" does not work everywhere to identify the pattern. I don't 
remember what exactly is hit by "." but a "\" seems not be included, at 
least. and I think a blank is a hit, therefore to successive patterns 
are not handled as to separate entities. anyway some patterns 'slip 
through'. I replaced the  "." by an explicit list of characters possible 
in the pattern (is this complete?).
4. the first 2 lines need to be reversed because there are nested 
\n{\c{...}} constructs which are otherwise missed.

maybe there is a simpler solution, but this version of the script seems 
to do the job.
thanks again.

joerg