23 Jan
2008
23 Jan
'08
12:53 p.m.
Hello,
\prehyphenchar<language number><optional eq><char number>
Sorry, I am an idiot. I just checked the source and it says:
\prehyphenchar<char number>
The idea was that this matches \patterns and \hyphenation: neither accepts a language number or an equals.
Hmm ... I would more expect it to match TeX's \hyphenchar (to match \patterns, the syntax IMO would have to be \prehyphenchar "{"<char number>"}"). But maybe I was confused by "All languages start out with \prehyphenchar=`\- and \posthyphenchar=0". OTOH, it is an integer parameter, so I might have thought that there would be an optional equals sign just as with TeX's other integer parameters (even though this one is not global, but language-specific). Jonathan