Re: hitex format 2026

Hi all!
I will turn the hyphenation error into a warning and extend the range of admissable codepoints from 0x3000 to May be 0xffff. This should at least fix Church Slavonic and for other languages simply reduce automatic hyphenation support.
I can commit the changes later today. I hope this will enable the generation of the plain format.

Implementing the necessary primitives to make LaTeX support possible will take me a bit longer.

The new utf8 primitives are all documented in hitexman.tex

Best regards
Martin

Am 08.02.2026 23:00 schrieb Karl Berry <[email protected]>:
David, Ulrike, all - thanks for the reports.  What to do is up to
Martin. I already reported the failures in hitex/hilatex fmt building to
him and disabled the building in the sources (hitex.tlpsrc).

So, Ulrike, I don't know why any hitex-related fmt was still trying to
be built for you. If that's what was happening. If hitex.fmt is going to
stay disabled for a while, I'll update the news.

David, it is not simple to reduce the hyphenation files being
read. Right now hitex is sharing the same plain-related hyph setup as
all the other engines, which loads all the hyph patterns. I am not
enthused about changing that. Martin said the problem is not just how
many are loaded, but that the "Church Slavonic" hyph-cu.tex hyphenation
file (and maybe others, didn't go beyond that) uses Unicode chars which
are intentionally not supported. --thanks, karl.