[XeTeX] Two font data problems -- newbie question

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri Apr 15 02:43:54 CEST 2011


On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Dan Drake wrote:

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> On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Dan Drake wrote:
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>> It seems rather incredible that this para couldn't be properly justified, given the amount of text and the line length for typesetting it (indicated by the break after "Cizhou").
>> But it gets worse: Leave out the "wares" -- everything between "Cizhou " and "Although" -- and it gives identical justification with the sam 0.792pt overfulness!
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> This was rather a dumb comment. I'm dropping the point while I gather better data. Thanks again to all for the data so far.
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Howdy,

If I had to guess there are some words TeX has no idea how hyphenate and that is the source of the problem. If you add hyphenation patterns for those words (see the ones that aren't broken) things might go better.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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