CTAN package update: ushyphex

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Mon Aug 29 19:35:44 CEST 2005


Barbara Beeton has updated her master list of hyphenation exceptions for 
U.S. English.  The updates to the list will appear in the forthcoming 
issue of TUGboat.  The complete list, with plurals and other variants 
included, is now available on CTAN, in info/digests/tugboat:
  ushyphex.tex - the generated list, suitable for passing to TeX
  tb0hyf.tex - the source for the list
  hyphenex.sh - the (shell/sed) script which generates the former from 
    the latter, courtesy of Werner Lemberg.

If you actually try to \input the list unaltered, you will find that it 
is currently over 1000 exceptions, which will overflow the limit in many 
distributions (e.g., TeX Live 2004).  The default limit will be increased 
in future releases; meanwhile, for Web2C-based distributions, you can 
increase hyph_size in texmf.cnf (8191 is a good number).

If any questions or problems, or you find additional exceptions are 
needed, please email tugboa (at) tug.org.
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