Unknown pattern ngerman-x-latest

[lgalke]

Dear LNI developers,

When using the document class, I am experiencing an error related to the hyphsubst package (error log below). Apparently, ngerman-x-latest is unknown (Running pdflatex with Texlive 2016 on Fedora 25). I tried installing / updating various packages after some googling without any success. However, the error even occurs if I pass english as option to the document class (I assume this is not the intended behaviour in any case).

Thanks in advance,
lgalke

latexmk -pdf  paper-lni.tex
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 22 April 2016, version: 4.45.
Latexmk: applying rule 'pdflatex'...
Rule 'pdflatex': Rules & subrules not known to be previously run:
   pdflatex
Rule 'pdflatex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:
      'pdflatex'
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Run number 1 of rule 'pdflatex'
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Running 'pdflatex  -recorder  "paper-lni.tex"'
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./paper-lni.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/03/31>
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 3 language(s) loaded.
(./lni.cls
Document Class: lni 2017/04/07 v1.1BETA Official class for submissions to the `
`Lecture Notes in Informatics''
Cleared option english from global list
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hyphsubst.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)

! Package hyphsubst Error: Unknown pattern `ngerman-x-latest'.

See the hyphsubst package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.223 \ProcessOptions*
                      \relax

[sieversMartin]

Are you using a vanilla TeX Live or one from the Fedora repos? If the later, I suspect a Fedora problem. Did you install a full TeX Live, is there maybe a specific hyphenation package missing?

Please check /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.dat and /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.def. Are there any entries for "ngerman" present and correct?

[lgalke]

Im using Tex Live from the fedora repos. Here are the contents of

language.dat:

english         hyphen.tex  % do not change!
=usenglish
=USenglish
=american
dumylang        dumyhyph.tex    %for testing a new language.
nohyphenation   zerohyph.tex    %a language with no patterns at all.
german loadhyph-de-1901.tex
ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex
swissgerman loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex

language.def:

\addlanguage {USenglish}{hyphen}{}{2}{3} %%% This MUST be the first non-comment
                                         %%% line of the file

\addlanguage{german}{loadhyph-de-1901.tex}{}{2}{2}
\addlanguage{ngerman}{loadhyph-de-1996.tex}{}{2}{2}
\addlanguage{swissgerman}{loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex}{}{2}{2}

I asserted that the following packages are installed:

• texlive-hyphenat
• texlive-hyphenex
• texlive-hyph-utf8
• texlive-hyphen-base
• texlive-hyphen-german
• texlive-oberdiek
• texlive-dehyph-exptl

[sieversMartin]

Am 17.04.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Lukas Galke:

Im using Tex Live from the fedora repos. Here are the contents of |language.dat|: english hyphen.tex % do not change! =usenglish =USenglish =american dumylang dumyhyph.tex %for testing a new language. nohyphenation zerohyph.tex %a language with no patterns at all. german loadhyph-de-1901.tex ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex swissgerman loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex |language.def|: \addlanguage {USenglish}{hyphen}{}{2}{3} %%% This MUST be the first non-comment %%% line of the file \addlanguage{german}{loadhyph-de-1901.tex}{}{2}{2} \addlanguage{ngerman}{loadhyph-de-1996.tex}{}{2}{2} \addlanguage{swissgerman}{loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex}{}{2}{2}

Your installation seems to be buggy or at least incomplete. On a most recent TL installation I get: ... dumylang dumyhyph.tex %for testing a new language. nohyphenation zerohyph.tex %a language with no patterns at all. % from dehyph-exptl: german-x-2017-03-31 dehypht-x-2017-03-31.tex =german-x-latest ngerman-x-2017-03-31 dehyphn-x-2017-03-31.tex =ngerman-x-latest ... many more entries % from hyphen-german: german loadhyph-de-1901.tex ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex swissgerman loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex You can try to add a local language.dat to "TEXMFLOCAL/tex/generic/config/language-local.dat" with the entries above.

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[sieversMartin]

Thinking about your other remark I agree, that the latest German hyphenation patterns do not necessarily need to be loaded when using the global option english. Changing this might help all users not having installed all various language packages.

[lgalke]

Thanks to your help 👍 , I could solve the issue with my tex installation. Just for the record: adding the lines to TEXMFLOCAL/...did not help. I removedtexlive-*` packages from the fedora repos and started over with a fresh TeX Live 2016 install. From my side, the issue can be closed.

[koppor]

With MiKTeX from three days ago, we experience the same issue at USTUTT dissertation template. Google directs me to here. No solution found, just wanted to note it down for other Googlers landing here.

[koppor]

The solution was to update MiKTeX.

[koppor]

On MiKTeX, one can solve it as follows:

1. Disable \RequirePackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}
2. Compile the document. This way, miktex downloads additional packages. Including hyphsubst.
3. Enable \RequirePackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}

I don't have a MWE yet to file it against MiKTeX. Maybe @sieversMartin knows where hyphsubst is contained so that MikTeX can be asked to add a dependency.

[Michael712]

Just a small addition for all looking for the same error: Make sure that the package dehyph-exptl is installed. After checking/installing run initexmf --update-fndb and initexmf --mklangs .

[koppor]

State of today: not working with the hint at #47 (comment)

[sieversMartin]

I'll have a look later today as I still hope to get a new version into TeX Live 2021. hyphsubstis no longer needed and should be replaced by babel macros.

[sieversMartin]

This has been fixed in v1.7

[koppor]

State of today:

Package babel Warning: Requested 'hyphenrules' for 'ngerman' not found:
(babel)                ngerman-x-latest.
(babel)                Using the default value. Reported on input line 75.

Installing the package dehyph-exptl helped.

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Update Also executing initexmf --update-fndb and initexmf --mklangs