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% title: Hyphenation patterns for modern and medieval Latin
% copyright: Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Claudio Beccari
% e-mail claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
% notice: This file is part of the hyph-utf8 package.
% See http://www.hyphenation.org for more information.
% language:
% name: Latin
% tag: la
% version: 3.201 2016-08-28
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% changes:
% -
% date: 1999
% version: 1.0
% author: Claudio Beccari
% description: First public release
% -
% date: 2007-04-16
% version: 3.1
% author: Claudio Beccari
% -
% date: 2010-05-31
% author: Claudio Beccari
% description: Removal of OT1 support
% -
% date: 2010-06-01
% version: 3.2
% author: Claudio Beccari
% description: Removal of pattern 2'2
% -
% date: 2016-08-28
% version: 3.201
% author: Claudio Beccari
% description: updated header with MIT licence notice;
% added few missing patterns
%
% ==========================================
% Patterns for the latin language mainly in modern spelling
% (u when u is needed and v when v is needed); medieval spelling
% with the ligatures \ae and \oe and the (uncial) lowercase `v'
% written as a `u' is also supported; apparently there is no conflict
% between the patterns of modern Latin and those of medieval Latin.
%
% For more information please read the babel-latin documentation.
%
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%
% For documentation see:
% C. Beccari, "Computer aided hyphenation for Italian and Modern
% Latin", TUG vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 23-33 (1992)
%
% see also
%
% C. Beccari, "Typesetting of ancient languages",
% TUG vol.15, n.1, pp. 9-16 (1994)
%
% In the former paper the code was described as being contained in file
% ITALAT.TEX; this is substantially the same code, but the file has been
% renamed and included in hyph-utf8.
%
% A corresponding file (ITHYPH.TEX) has been extracted in order to eliminate
% the (few) patterns specific to Latin and leave those specific to Italian;
% ITHYPH.TEX has been further extended with many new patterns in order to
% cope with the many neologisms and technical terms with foreign roots.
%
% Should you find any word that gets hyphenated in a wrong way, please, AFTER
% CHECKING ON A RELIABLE MODERN DICTIONARY, report to the author, preferably
% by e-mail. Please do not report about wrong break points concerning
% prefixes and/or suffixes; see at the bottom of this file.
%
% Compared with the previous versions, this file has been extended so as to
% cope also with the medieval Latin spelling, where the letter `V' played the
% roles of both `U' and `V', as in the Roman times, save that the Romans used
% only capitals. In the middle ages the availability of soft writing supports
% and the necessity of copying books with a reasonable speed, several scripts
% evolved in (practically) all of which there was a lower case alphabet
% different from the upper case one, and where the lower case `v' had the
% rounded shape of our modern lower case `u', and where the Latin diphthongs
% `AE' and `OE', both in upper and lower case, where written as ligatures,
% not to mention the habit of substituting them with their sound, that is a
% simple `E'.
%
% According to Leon Battista Alberti, who in 1466 wrote a book on
% cryptography where he thoroughly analyzed the hyphenation of the Latin
% language of his (still medieval) times, the differences from the Tuscan
% language (the Italian language, as it was named at his time) were very
% limited, in particular for what concerns the handling of the ascending and
% descending diphthongs; in Central and Northern Europe, and later on in
% North America, the Scholars perceived the above diphthongs as made of two
% distinct vowels; the hyphenation of medieval Latin, therefore, was quite
% different in the northern countries compared to the southern ones, at least
% for what concerns these diphthongs. If you need hyphenation patterns for
% medieval Latin that suite you better according to the habits of Northern
% Europe you should resort to the hyphenation patterns prepared by Yannis
% Haralambous (TUGboat, vol.13 n.4 (1992)).
%
%
%
% PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
%
% For what concerns prefixes and suffixes, the latter are generally separated
% according to "natural" syllabification, while the former are generally
% divided etimologically. In order to avoid an excessive number of patterns,
% care has been paid to some prefixes, especially "ex", "trans", "circum",
% "prae", but this set of patterns is NOT capable of separating the prefixes
% in all circumstances.
%
% BABEL SHORTCUTS AND FACILITIES
%
% Read the documentation coming with the discription of the Latin language
% interface of Babel in order to see the shortcuts and the facilities
% introduced in order to facilitate the insertion of "compound word marks"
% which are very useful for inserting etymological break points.
%
% Happy Latin and multilingual typesetting!
%