Re: hyphenation patterns in language.dat: Why not enable all?

for what its worth, the TeX Live setup has 31 patterns if you do a full 
install:

[spqr]~:latex sample2e
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc4-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.3)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
output format initialized to DVI
entering extended mode
(/Archive/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8b> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, 
ngerman, ca
talan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, estonian, finnish, greek, 
hungarian, ita
lian, latin, mongolian, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian, 
russian, slove
ne, serbocroat, slovak, spanish, swedish, ukenglish, ukrainian, welsh, 
dumylang
, nohyphenation, loaded.


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