[NTG-context] Hyphenation patterns

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/8/2020 7:05 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
>> Am 08.10.2020 um 17:41 schrieb Denis Maier <denismaier at mailbox.org>:
>>
>> where can I find the hyphenation patterns used by ConTeXt? I have two wrongly hyphenated words, and I want to check whether this is due to incorrect patterns. (I tried the source browser... not much luck so far.) The words are:
>> 1. applicable => hyphenated as applic-able
>> 2. obligated => hyphenated as oblig-ated
>>
>> I know I can use \hyphenation to correct that, but I wanted to check the patterns nevertheless.
> 
> I guess it’s just a valid option.
> You can check possible hyphenations like this:
> 
> \starttext
> 
> {EN: \en\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}
> 
> {DE: \de\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}
> 
> \stoptext
americans and brits hyphnetate differently

\starttext
     {\language[usenglish]  {\tt US \number\normallanguage}: 
\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}\par
     {\language[ukenglish]  {\tt UK \number\normallanguage}: 
\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}\par
\stoptext

syllable vs stem (but I bet Arthur can explain better)

hans

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