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1% title: Hyphenation patterns for modern and medieval Latin
2% copyright: Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Claudio Beccari
3%                                    e-mail claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
4% notice: This file is part of the hyph-utf8 package.
5%     See http://www.hyphenation.org for more information.
6% language:
7%     name: Latin
8%     tag: la
9% version: 3.201 2016-08-28
10% licence:
11%     - This file is available under the following licence:
12%         name: MIT
13%         url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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35% changes:
36%     -
37%         date: 1999
38%         version: 1.0
39%         author: Claudio Beccari
40%         description: First public release
41%     -
42%         date: 2007-04-16
43%         version: 3.1
44%         author: Claudio Beccari
45%     -
46%         date: 2010-05-31
47%         author: Claudio Beccari
48%         description: Removal of OT1 support
49%     -
50%         date: 2010-06-01
51%         version: 3.2
52%         author: Claudio Beccari
53%         description: Removal of pattern 2'2
54%     -
55%         date: 2016-08-28
56%         version: 3.201
57%         author: Claudio Beccari
58%         description: updated header with MIT licence notice;
59%                   added few missing patterns
60%
61% ==========================================
62% Patterns for the latin language mainly in modern spelling
63% (u when u is needed and v when v is needed); medieval spelling
64% with the ligatures \ae and \oe  and the (uncial) lowercase `v'
65% written as a `u' is also supported; apparently there is no conflict
66% between the patterns of modern  Latin and those of medieval Latin.
67%
68% For more information please read the babel-latin documentation.
69%
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71%
72%  For documentation see:
73%  C. Beccari, "Computer aided hyphenation for Italian and Modern
74%        Latin", TUG vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 23-33 (1992)
75%
76%  see also
77%
78%  C. Beccari, "Typesetting of ancient languages",
79%              TUG vol.15, n.1, pp. 9-16 (1994)
80%
81%  In the former paper  the  code  was  described  as  being contained in file
82%  ITALAT.TEX; this is substantially the same code,  but  the  file  has  been
83%  renamed and included in hyph-utf8.
84%
85%  A corresponding file (ITHYPH.TEX) has been extracted in order to  eliminate
86%  the  (few)  patterns specific to Latin and leave those specific to Italian;
87%  ITHYPH.TEX has been further  extended  with  many  new patterns in order to
88%  cope with the many neologisms and technical terms with foreign roots.
89%
90%  Should you find any word that gets hyphenated in a wrong way, please, AFTER
91%  CHECKING  ON A RELIABLE MODERN DICTIONARY, report to the author, preferably
92%  by e-mail.  Please  do  not  report  about  wrong  break  points concerning
93%  prefixes and/or suffixes; see at the bottom of this file.
94%
95%  Compared with the previous versions, this file has been extended so  as  to
96%  cope also with the medieval Latin spelling, where the letter `V' played the
97%  roles of both `U' and `V', as in the Roman times, save that the Romans used
98%  only capitals. In the middle ages the availability of soft writing supports
99%  and the necessity of copying books with a reasonable speed, several scripts
100%  evolved  in  (practically)  all  of  which  there was a lower case alphabet
101%  different from the upper case  one,  and  where  the lower case `v' had the
102%  rounded shape of our modern lower case `u', and where the Latin  diphthongs
103%  `AE'  and  `OE',  both in upper and lower case, where written as ligatures,
104%  not to mention the habit of  substituting  them with their sound, that is a
105%  simple `E'.
106%
107%  According  to  Leon  Battista  Alberti,  who  in  1466  wrote  a  book   on
108%  cryptography  where  he  thoroughly  analyzed  the hyphenation of the Latin
109%  language of his (still  medieval)  times,  the  differences from the Tuscan
110%  language (the Italian language, as it was named  at  his  time)  were  very
111%  limited,  in particular for what concerns the handling of the ascending and
112%  descending diphthongs; in  Central  and  Northern  Europe,  and later on in
113%  North America, the Scholars perceived the above diphthongs as made  of  two
114%  distinct  vowels;  the  hyphenation of medieval Latin, therefore, was quite
115%  different in the northern countries compared to the southern ones, at least
116%  for what concerns these  diphthongs.  If  you need hyphenation patterns for
117%  medieval Latin that suite you better according to the  habits  of  Northern
118%  Europe  you  should  resort  to the hyphenation patterns prepared by Yannis
119%  Haralambous (TUGboat, vol.13 n.4 (1992)).
120%
121%
122%
123%                            PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
124%
125% For what concerns prefixes and suffixes, the latter are generally  separated
126% according  to  "natural"  syllabification,  while  the  former are generally
127% divided etimologically. In order to  avoid  an excessive number of patterns,
128% care has been paid to some prefixes,  especially  "ex",  "trans",  "circum",
129% "prae",  but  this set of patterns is NOT capable of separating the prefixes
130% in all circumstances.
131%
132%                         BABEL SHORTCUTS AND FACILITIES
133%
134% Read  the  documentation  coming  with the discription of the Latin language
135% interface of  Babel  in  order  to  see  the  shortcuts  and  the facilities
136% introduced in order to facilitate the insertion  of  "compound  word  marks"
137% which are very useful for inserting etymological break points.
138%
139% Happy Latin and multilingual typesetting!
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