You can use the MakeTeXFMT
utility to make and install a new
format file for plain TeX resp. LaTeX.
The general MakeTexFMT
syntax is
maketexfmt format
where format is the name of a macro package. For example, to make a new LaTeX format file, you would say
maketexfmt latex
This creates the format file `latex.fmt'. MakeTeXFMT
moves
it into the MiKTeX Format Directory (usually
`c:\texmf\miktex\config\fmt'.
You can control the loading of hyphenation patterns by modifying the file `language.dat', which is located in the directory `c:\texmf\tex\generic\hyphen\local'.
As distributed with MiKTeX, `language.dat' has the following contents:
% File : language.dat % Purpose : specify which hypenation patterns to load % while running iniTeX english ushyphen.tex %ukenglish ukhyphen.tex german ghyph31.tex %italian ithyph.tex %dutch nehyph2.tex %finnish fihyph.tex %norwegian nohyph.tex %french f8hyph.tex
Lines starting with `%' are comments. The only uncommented lines in the example are `english ushyphen.tex' and `german ghyph31.tex'. That is, only hyphenation patterns for U.S. English and German will be loaded by iniTeX. To load other hyphenation patterns, you have to uncomment the corresponding lines.
After modifying `language.dat', you have to use MakeTeXFMT
to build a new format file.
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