[XeTeX] from teTeX-3.0 to TeXLive 2007

[Jonathan Kew]

On 19 Aug 2007, at 4:31 pm, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> Will Robertson wrote:
>> On 20/08/2007, at 0:05 , Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>>
>>> fontspec adds an extra hyphen to words already hyphenated with {}-
>>> (Anne{}-Marie becomes Anne--Marie.)
>>
>> This doesn't sound like a fontspec issue -- are you sure that it's
>> not a new version of XeTeX or something? Post a minimal example if
>> you can.
>
> Thanks, Will, for the answer.
>
> Here you have the minimal example:
>
> \documentclass{book}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \begin{document}
> Anne{}-Marie Anne-Marie
> \end{document}
>
> The issue might be generated by fontspec, because everything is right
> when fontspec is removed from source.

The issue isn't fontspec, it's the use of an OpenType (or similar)  
font rather than a TFM. You can show the same problem in plain XeTeX.

Offhand, it looks like a bug to me. I wonder how this escaped notice  
so long?!

JK