[XeTeX] sanskrit hyphenation question

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear Yves,

\righthyphenmin of 3 seems good.  As for left, can't cases like pa-ta-ti  be
dealt with in an auxiliary \hyphenation{} list?   In my view, though, neither
pi-bati nor pa-tati look very good.

Best,
Dominik


On 20 December 2012 18:56, Yves Codet <yves.codet at sfr.fr> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Sorry about the late reply.
>
> As Arthur wrote, the choice (1,5) was a mere mistake of mine. I hope it is
> forgiven now :) I had in  mind (very very rare) cases like ऊर्क्, which are
> probably best handled with an \mbox{} if they ever occur at the end of a
> line.
>
> Later I again suggested 1 for \lefthyphenmin because if you choose 2 it
> will allow पि-बति but not प-तति, though there is one akshara on the left of
> the break in both cases.
>
> For \righthyphenmin if you choose 2 you will allow breaks like अपत-त्,
> which is quite undesirable; that is why I suggested 3.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Yves
>
> Le 12 déc. 2012 à 16:42, François Patte <
> francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> a écrit :
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> > Bonjour,
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> > While looking on this page http://tug.org/tex-hyphen/, I have seen that
> > left-right-hyphenmin for sanskrit are set to (1,5). Why 5? In fact, if
> > we read the gloss-sanskrit.ldf file, it seems that it is (1,3).
> >
> > Why 3? I think that results are better with 2.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
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