[XeTeX] Hyphenation in polyglossia - Latin and Greek

[Yannis Haralambous]

Le 16 mai 09 à 16:33, wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu a écrit :

> I just checked MiKTeX Options, the Language tab. The relevant portion:
>
> Language      Hypehenation Table        Synonyms
> --------      ------------------        --------
>
> (...)
> greek         loadhyph-el-polyton.tex   polygreek
> monogreek     loadhyph-el-monoton.tex
> ancientgreeek loadhyph-grc.tex
> (...)
>
> So, it seems, Yannis should be satisfied, especially so that `greek'  
> in
> MiKTeX by default is polytonic.
>
> Mariusz Wodzicki

That's nice, indeed.
Maybe it would be clearer to call those three languages:

modernpolygreek
modernmonogreek
ancientpolygreek

and even that is not very accurate since the main difference between  
modernpolygreek and ancientpolygreek is that some prefixes are  
separated etymologically in hyphenation of ancient Greek and  
phonetically in hyphenation of modern Greek (for example, one would  
hyphenate ὑπερ-αξία in ancient Greek and ὑπε-ρα-ξία  
in modern one). But this is not an absolute rule and some publishers  
will accept the etymological rule for modern Greek.

And (modern) Greek was certainly hyphenated in the etymological way  
until the middle of the 20st century...

So it wouldn't surprise if me someone uses that set of patterns for  
modern Greek (or some intermediate set of patterns: that's what I have  
done for some publishers, and I ended up having a different patterns  
file for each of them...).

yh