RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: fmt-file for pdftex/pdflatex/jadetex:how?

[Xenitellis S <S dot Xenitellis at rhbnc dot ac dot uk>]

Hmm, I am not an expert on this, I will just convey my understanding
from my attempts to make things work with my language.

The .fmt/.ltx files are generated by this .dtx file.
This at least applies for "jadetex.fmt".

To have correct hyphenation in Norwegian for DVI/etc docs, you should enable
the norwegian hyphenation in jadetex.dtx (search for "german", will find a
line with active languages. Add Norwegian in front.). Then you need to
compile that jadetex.dtx and install it. ("make install").

Now, where do you get that jadetex.dtx thingie?
It's at http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/
Version 2.20 is the latest, made public yesterday :)
I do not know where they announce these, so perhaps you should keep it
as a secret as well.

Ahh, even with these, it does not work, I believe you need to enable
first norwegian hyphenation in TeX. I assume from your letter that you have
already done this.

Regards,
simos

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> From: 	Inge Juvkam[SMTP:telmin@ol.telia.no]
> Sent: 	21 June 2000 01:58
> To: 	DocBook-Apps
> Subject: 	DOCBOOK-APPS: fmt-file for pdftex/pdflatex/jadetex:how?
> 
> Hello nice people..
> The subject says it all, but i enjoy typing.
> -
> 
> This in the twilight zone of docbook-apps, perhaps, still..
> I would like to have appropriate hyphen-patterns (for my norwegian
> documents..) As far as my knowledge goes i can generate this with initex
> (latex) but it seems the output from jade (and the dbtools, obviously) is
> not affected by the latex.fmt.., which seems reasonable enough.. but? 
> I also know that the pdf*tex man-page mentions the pdftex -ini
> (pdfinitex). 
> Which files am i supposed to generate the formatting from in the three
> above?
> (-There are no pdftex.ltx/pdflatex.ltx files..) And when i do initex ...
> /dump with the jadetex.ltx it doesn't happen much..
> Needless to say the norwegian docs with the american way of splitting
> words doesn't look too good.
> -
> can anyone help me, please?
> 
> inge
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