Vladimir Volovich writes:

i've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-010807.tar.gz the new version of our ruhyphen package (collection of russian hyphenation patterns).

changes between the previous version (1.3) and this new version (1.4):

• Alexander Lebedev's patterns, ruhyphal.tex, are now generated using patgen and his rus-ispell dictionary (previously it was derived from Dimitry Vulis' patterns). This and many other improvements for Alexander Lebedev's patterns made over the last years, make them the highest quality patterns for russian language.

• added one more original pattern by Mikhail Grinchuk. it is the smallest of all patterns for Russian language, and could be used on TeX systems with limited memory; due to its small size, the number of wrong hyphenated words is bigger than for other patterns.

• the pattern ruhyphvl.tex was updated with the new version (slightly modified by A.Cherepanov, V.Kryukov and A.Shen).

• accompanying patterns for the cyrillic letter `yo' were regenerated using the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's comprehensive word list generated from his rus-ispell dictionary.

• patterns were made stable against re-encoding to any cyrillic encoding, and also usable with non-standard on the fly reencoding mechanisms like TCX or TCP (switched on at TeX format creation phase) used in some TeX implementations (provided that these transformations are 1-to-1 in *all* the range 128--255, -- otherwise the results may be incorrect). This was suggested by Alexander Cherepanov.

Please replace the old version located at CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ with this new version (please remove old package files first, because there were some changes in filenames).

installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team