text-hyphen 1.4.1 → 1.5.0

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/ga.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Irish Gaelic
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/gahyph.tex file, by Kevin P. Scannell
 #   <scannell@slu.edu> (2004).
@@ -13,37 +14,37 @@
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-# 
+#
 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
-# 
-#%% ====================================================================
-#%%  @TeX-hyphen-file{
-#%%     author          = "Kevin P. Scannell",
-#%%     version         = "1.0",
-#%%     date            = "23 January 2004",
-#%%     time            = "15:46:12 CST",
-#%%     filename        = "gahyph.tex",
-#%%     email           = "scannell@slu.edu",
-#%%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
-#%%     keywords        = "TeX, hyphen, Irish, Gaeilge",
-#%%     supported       = "yes",
-#%%     abstract        = "Hyphenation patterns for Irish (Gaeilge)",
-#%%     docstring       = "This file contains the hyphenation patterns
-#%%                        for the Irish language",
-#%%  }
-#%% ====================================================================
+#
+# %% ====================================================================
+# %%  @TeX-hyphen-file{
+# %%     author          = "Kevin P. Scannell",
+# %%     version         = "1.0",
+# %%     date            = "23 January 2004",
+# %%     time            = "15:46:12 CST",
+# %%     filename        = "gahyph.tex",
+# %%     email           = "scannell@slu.edu",
+# %%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
+# %%     keywords        = "TeX, hyphen, Irish, Gaeilge",
+# %%     supported       = "yes",
+# %%     abstract        = "Hyphenation patterns for Irish (Gaeilge)",
+# %%     docstring       = "This file contains the hyphenation patterns
+# %%                        for the Irish language",
+# %%  }
+# %% ====================================================================
 #
 #    See the web page  http://borel.slu.edu/fleiscin/index.html
 #    for more information on how these patterns were generated.
-#  
-#    Please report incorrect hyphenations to the author at the 
+#
+#    Please report incorrect hyphenations to the author at the
 #    email address above.
-#message{Hyphenation patterns `gahyph.tex' Version 1.0 <2004/01/22>}
+# message{Hyphenation patterns `gahyph.tex' Version 1.0 <2004/01/22>}
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::GA = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
@@ -593,10 +594,10 @@ veant5 vear3 vearn6 3v4ei veil5b v3eo véar6 véis5 véist6 5v6ial 3v4ini vios5
 vir5 virg6 v6íc v3la 3vol4 volt3 vuít5 x3ac x5ai x5aí
   PATTERNS
 
-    # See the web page cited above for descriptions of these ambiguities.
-    # These cover capitalized versions, *including* eclipsed capitals
-    # 2004-01-25:  46 of them coming from 23 classes modulo
-    # lenition/eclipsis
+  # See the web page cited above for descriptions of these ambiguities.
+  # These cover capitalized versions, *including* eclipsed capitals
+  # 2004-01-25:  46 of them coming from 23 classes modulo
+  # lenition/eclipsis
   lang.exceptions <<-EXCEPTIONS
 bhrachtaí mbrachtaí cháintí gcáintí cheiltí gceiltí chistí gcistí choirtí
 gcoirtí chreataí gcreataí dhoirteá dhoirtear dhoirtí doirtear ndoirteá

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/hr.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Croatian
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/bahyph.tex file, by Marinovi\'c Igor
 #   (1994 - 1996).
@@ -6,19 +7,19 @@
 # The original copyright holds and is reproduced in the source to this file.
 # The Ruby version of these patterns are copyright 2004 Austin Ziegler.
 #--
-# Hyphenation patterns for Croatian language words for use with 
-# T1 encoding, which is supported in DC fonts. 
+# Hyphenation patterns for Croatian language words for use with
+# T1 encoding, which is supported in DC fonts.
 # These can also be used with OT1 encoding.
 #
-# The first version was realized in late 1994. 
+# The first version was realized in late 1994.
 # Second, much more improved version was realized in the beginning of 1996.
 # Date of the last change: 19.03.1996.
 #
 #                                             Marinovi\'c Igor
 #                                           migor@student.math.hr
-# 
+#
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::HR = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   encoding "UTF-8"

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/hsb.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Upper Sorbian
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/bahyph.tex file, by E. Werner (1997).
 #
@@ -12,10 +13,10 @@
 # \message{Hyphenation patterns for Upper Sorbian, E. Werner}
 # \message{Completely new revision 1997, March 22}
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::HSB = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
-    lang.encoding "UTF-8"
+  lang.encoding "UTF-8"
   lang.patterns <<-PATTERNS
 % ě
 8ě

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/hu1.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Hungarian
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/huhyph.tex 3.12 file,
 #   by MIKL\'OS Dezs\H o and MAYER Gyula from 1989 - 1998.
@@ -30,11 +31,11 @@
 # MHSz10 p.8-9. földolgozatlan; cf. p.62.
 #++
 
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::HU1 = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
-  lang.isocode = 'hu'
+  lang.isocode = "hu"
   lang.patterns <<-PATTERNS
 % 1C(s/z/y)V   (V <> y)
 %  1C(f/h/s/z)y  occurs at the end of names, so I added some of them

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/hu2.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Hungarian
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/huhyphn.tex file, by NAGY Bence
 #   <huhyphn@tipogral.hu>.
@@ -11,15 +12,15 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2003, NAGY Bence <huhyphn@tipogral.hu>
 # This file can be distributed under the terms of the
 # GNU General Public License version 2.
-# 
-# Encoding: Cork/T1/EC
+#
+
 #++
 
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::HU2 = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
-  lang.isocode 'hu'
+  lang.isocode "hu"
   lang.patterns <<-PATTERNS
 .a2 .adás1s .ae1 .agyon1 .al1eg .al1e2m .al1e2s .al1ér .al1is .al1os .arc1c
 .ar2c3ho .atmo1 .az1a2 .az1ám .aze2 .á2 .ál1a2 .ál1e .ál1é2 .ál1i .ál1ok

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/ia.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Interlingua
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/iahyph.tex file, Version 0.2b.
 #   Released 3 July 2001, Created by Peter Kleiweg, kleiweg@let.rug.nl
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@
 #
 # About Interlingua: http://www.interlingua.com/
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::IA = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/id.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby
 #   id (Indonesian) and ms (Malay)
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/inhyph.tex file, by Jörg Knappen and
@@ -7,19 +8,19 @@
 # The original copyright holds and is reproduced in the source to this file.
 # The Ruby version of these patterns are copyright 2004 Austin Ziegler.
 #--
-# inhyph.tex 
+# inhyph.tex
 # Version 1.3 19-SEP-1997
 #
 # Hyphenation patterns for bahasa indonesia (probably also usable
 # for bahasa melayu)
 #
 # (c) Copyright 1996, 1997 Jörg Knappen and Terry Mart
-# 
-# This patterns are free software according to the GNU General Public 
+#
+# This patterns are free software according to the GNU General Public
 # licence version 2, June 1991.
 #
 # Please read the GNU licence for details. If you don't receive a GNU
-# licence with these patterns, you can obtain it from 
+# licence with these patterns, you can obtain it from
 #
 #                          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #                          675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@
 # email : mart@kph.uni-mainz.de
 #
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::ID = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
@@ -78,8 +79,8 @@ a2ir % ber-air
 % Don't overload the exception list...
   PATTERNS
 
-    # Exeptions to the above rules, specially words beginning in ber... and
-    # ter..
+  # Exeptions to the above rules, specially words beginning in ber... and
+  # ter..
   lang.exceptions <<-EXCEPTIONS
 be-ra-be be-ra-hi be-rak be-ran-da be-ran-dal be-rang be-ra-ngas-an
 be-rang-sang be-ra-ngus be-ra-ni be-ran-tak-an be-ran-tam be-ran-tas

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/is.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Icelandic
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/bahyph.tex file, by Jorgen Pind
 #   (1987).
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@
 #  e.g. that if one wants to use, say, umlaut marks over u or a it is
 #  necessary to write \" a (space before a) or \"{a} instead of PLAINS \"a.
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::IS = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/it.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # The original copyright holds and is reproduced in the source to this file.
 # The Ruby version of these patterns are copyright 2004 Austin Ziegler.
 #--
-#%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  file ithyph.tex  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+# %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  file ithyph.tex  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 #
 # Prepared by Claudio Beccari   e-mail  claudio.beccari@polito.it
 #
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #
 # See comments at the end of the file after the \endinput line
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::IT = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
@@ -60,75 +60,75 @@ t2t3s 2tv 2tw t2z 2tzk tz2s 2t. 2t'. 2t'' 1v 2vc v2l v2r 2vv 2v. 2v'. 2v''
   PATTERNS
 end
 
-  # Information
-  #                           ON ITALIAN HYPHENATION
-  #
-  # I have been working on patterns for the Italian language since 1987; in
-  # 1992 I published
-  #
-  #   C. Beccari, "Computer aided hyphenation for Italian and Modern Latin",
-  #               TUG vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 23-33 (1992)
-  #
-  # which contained a set of patterns that allowed hyphenation for both
-  # Italian and Latin; a slightly modified version of the patterns published
-  # in the above paper is contained in LAHYPH.TEX available on the CTAN
-  # archives.
-  #
-  # This minor revision has been tested with an enlarged set of difficult
-  # Italian words so as to comply with a larger number of technical words
-  # with foreign roots. The overall number of patterns is slightly reduced,
-  # but its strength is increased. As with the previous release hyathi are
-  # not hyphenated in order to cope with the habits of Italian readers.
-  # Similarly single vowel internal syllables are avoided.
-  #
-  # As the previous versions, this new set of patterns does not contain any
-  # accented character so that the hyphenation algorithm behaves properly in
-  # both cases, that is with OT1 and T1 encodings. With the former encoding
-  # fonts do not contain accented characters, while with the latter accented
-  # characters are present and sequences such as à map directly to slot "E0
-  # that contains "agrave".
-  #
-  # Of course if you use T1 encoded fonts you get the full power of the
-  # hyphenation algorithm, while if you use OT1 encoded fonts you miss some
-  # possible break points; this is not a big inconvenience in Italian
-  # because:
-  #
-  # 1) The Regulation UNI 6015 on accents specifies that compulsory accents
-  #    appear only on the ending vowel of oxitone words; this means that it
-  #    is almost indifferent to have or to miss the T1 encoded fonts because
-  #    the only difference consists in how TeX evaluates the end of the
-  #    word; in practice if you have these special facilities you get
-  #    "qua-li-tà", while if you miss them, you get "qua-lità" (assuming
-  #    that \righthyphenmin > 1).
-  #
-  # 2) Optional accents are so rare in Italian, that if you absolutely want
-  #    to use them in those rare instances, and you miss the T1 encoding
-  #    facilities, you should also provide explicit discretionary hyphens as
-  #    in "sé\-gui\-to".
-  #
-  # There is no explicit hyphenation exception list because these patterns
-  # proved to hyphenate correctly a very large set of words suitably chosen
-  # in order to test them in the most heavy circumstances; these patterns
-  # were used in the preparation of a number of books and no errors were
-  # discovered.
-  #
-  # Nevertheless if you frequently use technical terms that you want
-  # hyphenated differently from what is normally done (for example if you
-  # prefer etymological hyphenation of prefixed and/or suffixed words) you
-  # should insert a specific hyphenation list in the preamble of your
-  # document, for example:
-  #
-  # \hyphenation{su-per-in-dut-to-re su-per-in-dut-to-ri}
-  #
-  # If you use, as you should, the italan option of the babel package, then
-  # you have available the active charater " that allows you to put
-  # a discretionary break at a word boundary of a compound word while
-  # maintaning the hyphenation algorithm on the rest of the word.
-  #
-  # Please, read the babel package documentation.
-  #
-  # 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.
-  #
-  # Happy multilingual typesetting!
+# Information
+#                           ON ITALIAN HYPHENATION
+#
+# I have been working on patterns for the Italian language since 1987; in
+# 1992 I published
+#
+#   C. Beccari, "Computer aided hyphenation for Italian and Modern Latin",
+#               TUG vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 23-33 (1992)
+#
+# which contained a set of patterns that allowed hyphenation for both
+# Italian and Latin; a slightly modified version of the patterns published
+# in the above paper is contained in LAHYPH.TEX available on the CTAN
+# archives.
+#
+# This minor revision has been tested with an enlarged set of difficult
+# Italian words so as to comply with a larger number of technical words
+# with foreign roots. The overall number of patterns is slightly reduced,
+# but its strength is increased. As with the previous release hyathi are
+# not hyphenated in order to cope with the habits of Italian readers.
+# Similarly single vowel internal syllables are avoided.
+#
+# As the previous versions, this new set of patterns does not contain any
+# accented character so that the hyphenation algorithm behaves properly in
+# both cases, that is with OT1 and T1 encodings. With the former encoding
+# fonts do not contain accented characters, while with the latter accented
+# characters are present and sequences such as à map directly to slot "E0
+# that contains "agrave".
+#
+# Of course if you use T1 encoded fonts you get the full power of the
+# hyphenation algorithm, while if you use OT1 encoded fonts you miss some
+# possible break points; this is not a big inconvenience in Italian
+# because:
+#
+# 1) The Regulation UNI 6015 on accents specifies that compulsory accents
+#    appear only on the ending vowel of oxitone words; this means that it
+#    is almost indifferent to have or to miss the T1 encoded fonts because
+#    the only difference consists in how TeX evaluates the end of the
+#    word; in practice if you have these special facilities you get
+#    "qua-li-tà", while if you miss them, you get "qua-lità" (assuming
+#    that \righthyphenmin > 1).
+#
+# 2) Optional accents are so rare in Italian, that if you absolutely want
+#    to use them in those rare instances, and you miss the T1 encoding
+#    facilities, you should also provide explicit discretionary hyphens as
+#    in "sé\-gui\-to".
+#
+# There is no explicit hyphenation exception list because these patterns
+# proved to hyphenate correctly a very large set of words suitably chosen
+# in order to test them in the most heavy circumstances; these patterns
+# were used in the preparation of a number of books and no errors were
+# discovered.
+#
+# Nevertheless if you frequently use technical terms that you want
+# hyphenated differently from what is normally done (for example if you
+# prefer etymological hyphenation of prefixed and/or suffixed words) you
+# should insert a specific hyphenation list in the preamble of your
+# document, for example:
+#
+# \hyphenation{su-per-in-dut-to-re su-per-in-dut-to-ri}
+#
+# If you use, as you should, the italan option of the babel package, then
+# you have available the active charater " that allows you to put
+# a discretionary break at a word boundary of a compound word while
+# maintaning the hyphenation algorithm on the rest of the word.
+#
+# Please, read the babel package documentation.
+#
+# 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.
+#
+# Happy multilingual typesetting!

data/lib/text/hyphen/language/1.9/la.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
 # Hyphenation patterns for Text::Hyphen in Ruby: Latin
 #   Converted from the TeX hyphenation/lahyph.tex file, by Claudio Beccari
 #   (1999 - 2001).
@@ -44,9 +45,9 @@
 #
 # Information after \endinput.
 #
-#message{Latin Hyphenation Patterns `lahyph' Version 3.0b <2001/11/21>}
+# message{Latin Hyphenation Patterns `lahyph' Version 3.0b <2001/11/21>}
 #++
-require 'text/hyphen/language'
+require "text/hyphen/language"
 
 Text::Hyphen::Language::LA = Text::Hyphen::Language.new do |lang|
   lang.encoding "UTF-8"
@@ -81,54 +82,54 @@ o2r1ue o2r1ui o2r1uo o2r1uu u2r1ua u2r1ue u2r1ui u2r1uo u2r1uu
   PATTERNS
 end
 
-  # 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  LAHYPH.TEX  in  accordance  with  the  ISO  name for Latin and the
-  # convention that all hyphenation pattern file  names should be formed by the
-  # agglutination of two letter language ISO code and the abbreviation HYPH.
-  #
-  # 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)).
+# 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  LAHYPH.TEX  in  accordance  with  the  ISO  name for Latin and the
+# convention that all hyphenation pattern file  names should be formed by the
+# agglutination of two letter language ISO code and the abbreviation HYPH.
+#
+# 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)).