*********************************************************************** ************************ Towards Welsh TeX ************************ *********************************************************************** Thanks to the kind support of Andrew Hawke, who supplied me with a dictionary of 349,812 hyphenated words, I was able to prepare hyphenation patterns for WELSH. This is only a first step to Welsh TeX, and I will need the help of volunteers speaking Welsh to go further. I have placed on spi.ens.fr (129.199.104.3), pub/tex/yannis/welsh the package welsh.tar.Z containing -- welsh.ps, notes presenting the different PATGEN strategies and results I obtained. I also include the list of 106 badly hyphenated dictionary words. These notes are in PostScript format. They are part of a paper ``Towards Welsh TeX'' which I will submit to TUGboat. -- cyr10.tfm, cyr10.vf (CY is the ISO code for Welsh), virtual Welsh Computer Modern Roman 10 points: needs dcr10 -- cysl10.tfm, cysl10.vf, virtual Welsh Computer Modern Slanted 10 pt, needs dcsl10 -- cyti10.tfm, cyti10.vf, virtual Welsh Computer Modern Italic 10 pt, needs dcti10 -- cybx10.tfm, cybx10.vf, virtual Welsh Computer Modern Bold Extended 10 pt, needs dcbx10 -- cytt10.tfm, cytt10.vf, virtual Welsh Computer Modern Typewriter 10 pt, needs dctt10 -- cyhyphen.tex, the ALPHA version of Welsh hyphenation patterns, encoded as the virtual Welsh fonts. To use the fonts with LaTeX+NFSS, inlcude the following macros in the preamble of your LaTeX file: \catcode`@=11 \@accent@def{grave}{w}{^^a8} \@accent@def{grave}{W}{^^88} \@accent@def{grave}{y}{^^a0} \@accent@def{grave}{Y}{^^80} \@accent@def{acute}{w}{^^a9} \@accent@def{acute}{W}{^^89} \@accent@def{circflx}{w}{^^b3} \@accent@def{circflx}{W}{^^93} \@accent@def{circflx}{y}{^^a7} \@accent@def{circflx}{Y}{^^87} \@accent@def{Umlaut}{w}{^^b5} \@accent@def{Umlaut}{W}{^^95} \catcode`@=12 and don't forget to switch to Welsh fonts when typesetting Welsh. *********************************************************************** ************************* THE HELP I NEED ************************* *********************************************************************** 1. Please look into the 106 words which my patterns have badly hyphe- nated. It may be that these are spelling errors of the dictionary. Are these words important? 2. I need Welsh text to test the patterns. Please send me as much Welsh text as you have on electronic support (or put it on some anonymous ftp server); I will apply the patterns on it and then ask you to check the results. Please encode accented letters either in ^^xy notation as above, or in 7-bit TeX notation \'a, \`e, \^w, \"y etc. 3. I need volunteers to translate LaTeX captions into Welsh and to cross-check hyphenated Welsh text. 4. Could somebody send me a Welsh newspaper and/or book so that I can take a look into typographic conventions? *********************************************************************** *********************** Thanks in advance!! *********************** *********************************************************************** +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Yannis Haralambous yannis@gat.citilille.fr | +=========================================================================+ | Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Traitement Autom. des Langues | | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Private address: 187, rue Nationale, 59800 Lille, France | | Fax: (33) 20.40.28.64 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+