[tex-hyphen] Puzzling hyphenation with polyglossia and xelatex

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Well, after all these years, there's still something to learn about TeX :-)

I've learned the hard way to stay well away from \everypar when using LaTeX!

Thanks, Jonathan,

Dominik



On 16 December 2010 15:35, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:

> TeX doesn't hyphenate the first word of a paragraph. It's to do with the
> rules about finding candidate letter sequences; IIRC, it might be the \hbox
> for the paragraph indent that's preventing it. The TeXbook explains it all
> fully, but I'm away from my copy just now.
>
> You can probably "fix" this, if desired, by inserting \allowhyphens before
> the first word, where \allowhyphens is defined as
>
>  \def\allowhyphens{\nobreak \hskip 0pt \relax}
>
> so that the first word is preceded by some (zero-width) glue. Or even use
> \everypar to insert this (how to make that play nicely with LaTeX packages
> that also want to use \everypar is left as an exercise.....)
>
> JK
>
> On 16 Dec 2010, at 05:52, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
> > I've just realized that this behaviour doesn't depend on polyglossia or
> xelatex.  I still find it puzzling.
> >
> > D
> >
> > On 16 December 2010 14:50, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
>
>
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