[XeTeX] Another hyphenation problems -- hyphenmins

[Thomas Fehige]

Hello,

I found a workaround here:

	http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2010-December/019519.html

and it seems to work, although I'm not sure what's happening. ;) Did I 
do the right thing?

All the best -- Thomas

Am 15.07.2011 13:25, schrieb Thomas Fehige:
> Hello again,
>
> I'm still struggling with the hyphenation. In German, you usually set
> hyphenmins to 2,2. That is apparently done in gloss-german.ldf, where it
> says:
>
> %-----------------------------------
> \PolyglossiaSetup{german}{
> hyphenmins={2,2},
> frenchspacing=true,
> fontsetup=true,
> }
> %-----------------------------------
>
> and it works fine as long as German is the only language I'm declaring.
> If I declare \setotherlanguage{english} after
> \setdefaultlanguage{german} it seems that this setting of hyphenmins is
> forgotten. In the example below, what I expect from \showhyphens{eine,
> alte, Dame} would be "ei-ne", "al-te", "Da-me" but instead I get no
> hyphenation at all. When I swap the two lines where the languages are
> declared, I get the German hyphenmins. I'm not sure if then the English
> hyphenation is damaged in any way. This behaviour is not what I'd expect.
>
> Thanks for your time -- Thomas
> %------------------------------------------------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{german} % to see the effect
> \setotherlanguage{english} % swap these two lines
>
> \begin{document}
> \selectlanguage{german}
> \showhyphens{eine, alte, Dame}
> \end{document}
> %------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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