On 13 Jun 2006, at 8:25 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
On a more general level, if both ConTeXt and XeTeX are engaged in converting legacy TeX hyphenation patterns to utf-8, should they be coordinated in order to avoid duplication of effort?
anyone can use the patterns; of course bugs need to be sorted out, but given my experiences with pattern maintainance i will not drop them from context; too much has gone wrong in the past; but you can consider them to be generic so indeed we can avoid duplication of work.
Indeed.... I have no desire to duplicate work. :) My main concern at this point relates to packaging and co-ordination between the different macro packages that load patterns; we can't expect latex users to be dependent on having context installed, or vice versa. Patterns belong in a base tex installation, where they can be available to any higher-level macro package. This needs to be sorted out among a wider group than this mailing list.... JK