Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 3314
tetex hyphenates "d-ifficulties"
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:37:36 EST
The version of tetex shipped with Redhat 6.0 seems to make bad hyphenation choices. In particular, it is hyphenating "difficulties" as d-ifficulties, which is definitely not correct. Examples are in the supplied URL. The output of "\showhyphens{difficulties}" in both Redhat 5.2 and Redhat 6.0 is the same, "dif-fi-cul-ties". So the core hyphenation seems to be working right. Maybe some of the weightings are wrong? TeX has always had a hard time hyphenating in two column mode, but the new Redhat 6.0 behaviour is unacceptable. I am also mailing this bug report to tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de
I got a reply from the tetex list, from Thomas Esser. He says: >Yes, a known problem. RedHat has used a version of a teTeX pretest >which had a broken version of babel. This kind of problems are fixed >in teTeX-1.0. I think that RedHat will sonn switch to that. It would >be nice if RedHat made some update-rpm packages that at least fix the >babel problem. ------- Additional Comments From 06/09/99 12:40 ------- tetex 1.0 is now out, which fixes this problem (and probably others). It would be good if RH were to release errata RPMs with that.
Fixed (by upgrading) in tetex-1.0.1-2.
*** Bug 4156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Sometimes teTex will choose to hyphenate a word after the first character of that word at the end of a line. e.g. This is an example of a line that might be hyphenated i- ncorrectly. I am sure this a problem with teTex, but perhaps a new version fixes the problem, or a attribute decided at compile time is the problem.