[tex-live] hyphenation puzzle

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Thomas Esser wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:30:43AM +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> > 	shhyph.tex renamed to shhyphl.tex (as on CTAN), language.dat
> 
> shhyphl.tex has a license of the nocommercial type.

OK, will remove
 
> ushyph.tex = hyphen.tex.
> gbhyph.tex = ukhyph.tex and they don't allow any changes (btw.: hyphen.tex does).
> ishyphen.tex does not allow any changes, too.
> 
> So, I suggest to remove the duplicates gbhyph.tex and ushyph.tex and the
> nonfree file shhyphl.tex. And what about ukhyph.tex and ishyphen.tex?
> Even Knuth has added this "Modifications are permitted, but only if the
> resulting file is not named ..."  for hyphen.tex and plain.tex.

I don't know who (and for what reason) introduced that mess?
We discussed that many years ago :-)
I'm going to follow your suggestions anyway (leaving ukhyph and ishyphen
for better time). Thanks for pointing that.

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl