[XeTeX] (Xe)LaTeX output in a non-(Xe)LaTeX scholarly community

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sat Oct 23 17:51:35 CEST 2010



Judson Herrman wrote:

> Ironically, the handiest guide to Greek hyphenation I know of is the
> 39th edition of Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at OUP. I
> found an expensive used copy, and I believe the material on
> typesetting foreign languages is absent from later editions.

The 39th~edn (1983) certainly has a section on "Rules for setting
Foreign Languages", pp.~88--138.  The Oxford Guide to Style (2nd~edn,
2002), on the other hand, which some cite as "The New Hart", has
no such section, although the index includes a number of foreign
languages (too many to list).

Philip Taylor


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