Hebrew hyphenation patterns for babel

So… in the last post I convinced LaTeX to typeset Hebrew with texlive and babel. There are still a few details to work out, so this deals with the first one: Hyphenation patterns.

The error:

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `Hebrew'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

As Hebrew is not hyphenated at all, this is of no concern that no hyphenation patterns are found. But LaTeXs "solution" of taking English hyphenation patterns leads to very strange results. So tell babel that it shouldn’t try and really there are no hyphenation patterns for Hebrew with:

\makeatletter\let\l@hebrew\l@nohyphenation\makeatother

If this doesn’t work, you might fall back to define a hyphenation pattern length of 255 (see Stackexchange).

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I am a software developr, data scientist, computational linguist, teacher of computer science and above all a huge fan of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for everything, including things you never wanted to do with LaTeX. My latest love is lilypond, aka LaTeX for music. I'll post at irregular intervals about cool stuff, stupid hacks and annoying settings I want to remember for the future.