[XeTeX] Hyphenation exceptions for German -- how?

Thomas Fehige thomas at fehige.de
Thu Jul 14 09:00:35 CEST 2011


  Thank you all, that's much better ;)

While we're at it: Is there a ready way to define different hyphenation 
exceptions for each language used in one document?

All the best -- Thomas

Am 13.07.2011 23:17, schrieb Ross Moore:
> Hello Arno,
>
> On 14/07/2011, at 6:38 AM, Arno Trautmann wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> short answer: use \hyphenation after \begin{document}, then it works.
>> However, I've been wondering for a while now why this is the case – can someone explain this behaviour?
> It could well be that the hyphenation patterns defined using
> polyglossia are not actually loaded until the \begin{document}
> by loading the appropriate commands using
>    \AtBeginDocument{... whatever ...}
>
> LaTeX has an internal macro  \@begindocumenthook
> that is expanded at that time.
> There can be many good reasons for delaying some commands
> until LaTeX has read the complete preamble.
>
> For example, this is a standard way to resolve conflicts due
> to the order of loading packages. One package can have a piece
> of coding that detects whether or not another has been loaded,
> then expands an appropriate macro to deal with the potential
> conflict, only if necessary.
>
>
> You can use this too, within the preamble, by doing:
>
> \AtBeginDocument{\hyphenation{%
> einer
> Me-ta-ethik
> }}
>
>> cheers
>> Arno
>>
>> Thomas Fehige wrote:
>>> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>> \usepackage{polyglossia}
>>> \setdefaultlanguage{german}
>>>
>>> \hyphenation{
>>> einer
>>> Me-ta-ethik
>>> }
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
>>> % that gives me "Me-tae-thik" and "ei-ner",
>>> % the former wrong, the latter ugly.
>>> \end{document}
> Hope this help,
>
> 	Ross
>
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