[tex-live] [XeTeX] XeTeX/TeX Live : Setting the default language

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Nov 4 15:16:42 CET 2011


No idea, but I was not thinking about that, any way AFAIK Lorem Impsum
is Latin so using it to test English hyphenation makes no sense
(incidentally, someone at Mozilla thought it would be good idea[1].)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/cssref/hyphens.html

Regards,
 Khaled

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:26:20AM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> No that was not what I meant. I meant what change does the knuth.tex text makes
> to the number of hyphenation that you get? do you get more hyphenetaion with
> knuth.tex than using Lorem Impsum. By Lorem Ipsum, I did not mean that there is
> a tex file but only meant the text itself as in http://lipsum.com/
> 
> I was only curious about the difference.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> 
>     \input Lorem Ipsum
>     \bye
> 
>     Does not work here.
> 
>     Regards,
>      Khaled
> 
>     On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>     > what change does that make if one uses Lorem Ipsum... instead knuth.tex?
>     >
>     > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:21:41AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster,
>     Ret'd)
>     >     wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     > >except phil doesn't use latex, so can't use polyglossia.
>     >     >
>     >     > True.  But Khaled Hosny's solution was perfect:
>     >     >
>     >     > >\input knuth
>     >     > >\uselanguage{british} % or ukenglish or UKenglish, all synonyms
>     >     > >\input knuth
>     >     > >\bye
>     >     >
>     >     > once I realised that "\input Knuth" was neither required
>     >     > nor productive !
>     >
>     >     Sorry, that was a bit of ConTeXtish habit of using knuth.tex as a
>     test
>     >     and I thought it is obvious (now I realise that it is even part of
>     >     ConTeXt and you might not even have it unless you installed ConTeXt).
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >      Khaled
>     >
>     >
> 
> 


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