[NTG-context] error with new release

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Taco wrote
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> > 
> >>When I regenerate the formats on my linux box with the latest
> release, I
> >>get this error:
> >>
> >>language : patterns pl for pl loaded (n=13,e=pl0,m=pl0)
> >>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/plhyph.tex
> >>!Improper alphabetic constant.
> >><to be read again>
> >> \else
> >>\utffouruniglph ...tf at c *(#1-\utf at f )+\utf at b *(`#2
> >> -\utf at g )+\utf at a
> >>*(`#3-\ut...
> >>l.189 ./sr/o
> >> 2d5
> >>
> >>Since nobody else complains, I guess this must be a misconfiguration
> on
> >>my side, but what could it be?
> >> 
> > 
> 
> Loading the wrong pattern file, most likely. This plhyph.tex is
> not one of Hans' files, it should have found lang-pl.pat instead.
> Perhaps you have a file called 'aliases' somewhere that remaps
> lang-pl.pat to the tetex-supplied plhyph.tex. Otherwise, something
> is wrong with the search paths.
> 
> Cheers, taco
> 
Bingo, that was it. This is on Suse 10.1. by default, it ships with a
cont-usr.tex in /etc/texmf/tex/context/config/ which takes precedence
over everything else. And this file contains a couple of synonyms which
seem pretty stale:

%D Hyphenation patterns are normally sought in filed named
%D \type {lang-xx.pat}. When present on the system, those
%D patterns take precedence. (The next list is inspired on
%D Thomas Esser's \TETEX\ distribution.) This list will be
%D adapted to the actual situation.

\definefilesynonym [lang-ca.pat]  [cahyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-da.pat]  [dkhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-de.pat]  [dehyphn.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-es.pat]  [eshyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-fi.pat]  [fihyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-fr.pat]  [frhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-hr.pat]  [hrhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-hu.pat]  [huhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-it.pat]  [ithyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-la.pat]  [lahyph7.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-no.pat]  [nohyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-pl.pat]  [plhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-pt.pat]  [pthyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-ro.pat]  [rohyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-ru.pat]  [ruenhyph.tex] % sic: ruen
\definefilesynonym [lang-sl.pat]  [sihyph.tex]   % sic: sl/si
\definefilesynonym [lang-sv.pat]  [svhyph.tex]   % was [sehyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-tr.pat]  [tkhyph.tex]   % was [trhyph.tex]
\definefilesynonym [lang-ua.pat]  [ukrenhyp.tex] % sic ukren
\definefilesynonym [lang-uk.pat]  [ukhyph.tex]

\definefilesynonym [lang-nl.pat]  [nlhyphen.tex] % symbolic name, see
below
\definefilesynonym [lang-af.pat]  [nlhyphen.tex] % symbolic name, see
below

\definefilesynonym [lang-en.pat]  [ushyphen.tex] % symbolic name, see
below
\definefilesynonym [lang-us.pat]  [ushyphen.tex] % symbolic name, see
below

%definefilesynonym [czhyph.pat]   [czhyphen.tex] % safeguard
%definefilesynonym [skhyph.pat]   [skhyphen.tex] % safeguard

\definefilesynonym [lang-cz.pat]  [czhyphen.tex] % in a different part
of the tree, sigh
\definefilesynonym [lang-sk.pat]  [skhyphen.tex] % in a different part
of the tree, sigh

%definefilesynonym [lang-cz.hyp]  [czhyphen.ex]  % in a different part
of the tree, sigh
%definefilesynonym [lang-sk.hyp]  [skhyphen.ex]  % in a different part
of the tree, sigh

\definefilesynonym [lang-deo.pat] [dehypht.tex]  % old german patterns

I removed this file, and format generation proceeded normally. But I
guess that at every Suse update, it will be regenerated...

Best 

Thomas