As I was mucking around with my install of fop to generate PDFs out of MathML, I decided to also fix a long standing warning about hyphenation pattern not found.

As it turns out hyphenation patterns are not shipped as part of fop anymore and you have to install them separately. I decided to go with the pre-compiled binary version.

$ cp ~/Downloads/offo-hyphenation-binary/fop-hyph.jar \
    /opt/local/share/java/fop/1.0/lib/