From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4m) Description of problem: By default, latex does not use french hyphenation. You have to execute "initex latex.ltx" in the directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ and it will produced a file called latex.fmt in which all is well configurated. Beware to have only one file latex.ltx because latex uses the first found latex.ltx file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a latex document. 2. Compile it. 3. Look at the result. Actual Results: The dvi document is created bu without any hyphenation. Expected Results: A dvi document with hyphenation (french in my case). Additional info: All is well pre-configurated in the distribution. You just have to execute "initex latex.ltx" in the directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c. Beware to have only one file latex.ltx because latex uses the first found latex.ltx file.
Please submit a short file that I can use to test whether French hyphenation is working (I don't know what special rules there are for it). What does 'rpm -q tetex' say?
Created attachment 37003 [details] French hyphenation latex test file.
rpm -q tetex tetex-1.0.7-7
I don't have 'french.sty'. Is that the problem you're referring to? If not, I don't really know what I'm looking at. Here's what I get when I comment out the \usepackage{french} line with tetex-1.0.7-7: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (fr.tex LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1 Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i talian, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf)) No file fr.aux. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 7--7 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 si-gnal contai-ner ivi-ne-ment al-ghbre Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 ivh-ne-ments al-ghbre dis-wu-vre-ment nai-ve-tis Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 sig-nal con-tainer (fr.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on fr.log. And here's the output from the latest package (which will become 1.0.7-37): This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (fr.tex LaTeX2e <2000/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i talian, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf ************************************* * Local config file frenchb.cfg used * (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg))) No file fr.aux. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 7--7 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 si-gnal contai-ner ivi-ne-ment al-ghbre Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 ivh-ne-ments al-ghbre dis-wu-vre-ment nai-ve-tis Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] \T1/cmr/m/n/10 sig-nal con-tainer (fr.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on fr.log. Running 'initex latex.ltx' produces no different output. Can you give me more detail about how to see the problem you are describing?
Closing this report, as the current package seems to handle French hyphentation properly.