Currently, tetex is built and shipped with only US english, french, german, ngerman and italian uncommented in texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat . All but Italian were originally uncommented in the tetex distribution and Italian is uncommented by teTeX-1.0-italian.patch that was added about a year ago). Why not uncomment all the language definitions? You ship all the necessary support files with teTeX anyway, so you do not save much(may be almost nothing at all) by running initex with most of the languages commented out. However for the user, to re-run initex to have the language included and pack it back into the RPMs is a major project which takes a while even on a fast machine (and forever on a slow one). P.S. Right now there is the following line for Russian there: %russian ruhyphen.tex % note: edit ruhyphen.tex for your encoding! In addition to uncommenting it (BTW, do not worry about encoding, the default one is good enough), could you also add the following line: enrus ruenhyph.tex It creates a language definition that allows one to write a mixed English-Russian document without having to switch between languages (is uses English hyphenation for words typed using Latin letters and Russian hyphenation for words typed using Cyrillic letters).
All languages are enabled (including enrus) in tetex-1.0.7-9. Drop me (jbj) a note if you'ld be willing to test.
Oops, I have to back pedal, as adding all the languages exceeds the default capacity of tex. I managed to get russian enabled, but not enrus, apologies.
Tried it in 7.1, works fine. Thanks!
This is still a problem in FC3
Ok, I enabled all languages in texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat and am currently testing whether teTeX survives that.
Looks good. Applied.
Rahul: The update is not released yet as I want to ship more fixes in an update at once because of about 100MB of rpms that are needed to be dowloaded when a new update is released.
Ok. Thanks for the update.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
The FC3 update has been pushed some time ago already. I just forgot to close this.
Cool, thanks.