[XeTeX] Some problems with hyphenation and -recorder options

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 7:48 pm, Christopher Creutzig wrote:

> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> Instead, I get some overfull boxes; it seems that xetex is failing to 
>> break after existing hyphens, and so the compound words project into 
>> the right margin because no suitable breaks are found.
>
>  This is correct behaviour.  Well, at least it is consistent with the 
> way Knuth designed TeX to work.

I think you misunderstood my note; I meant that it isn't treating the 
existing hyphens as line-break opportunities (with cost 
\exhyphenpenalty). It's true that it should not auto-hyphenate the 
parts of a compound.

JK