<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">>Ah, I hadn't realized that these could be
used in plain XeTeX. Can they?</font><div> <br>I have built a XeTeX format file using the standard mechanism (i.e., language.dat etc.)<br>and I have added the following commands in a sample file <br><br>\catcode`\@11\relax<br>\def\setlanguage#1{%<br> \expandafter\ifx\csname l@#1\endcsname\relax%<br> \typeout{^^J Error: No hyphenation pattern for language #1 loaded,}%<br> \typeout{ default hyphenation patterns are used.^^J}%<br> \language=0%<br> \else\language=\csname l@#1\endcsname\fi}<br>\catcode`\@12\relax<br>%\def\ancientgreek{\setlanguage{ancinetgreek}<br>%\def\american{\setlanguage{american}}<br>\font\GR="Minion Pro" at 12pt<br>\GR\setlanguage{monogreek}<br><br>And they work. The language.dat file I use is minimal and contains the following:<br><br>american ushyphmax.tex<br>ancientgreek
loadhyph-grc.tex<br>monogreek loadhyph-el-monoton.tex<br>greek loadhyph-el-polyton.tex<br>=polygreek<br><br>These loadhyph-something files load either the ASCII or the UTF-8 encoded patterns,<br>depending on the program one uses to create his/her format file.<br><br>a.s.<br><br></div>----------------------<br>Apostolos Syropoulos<br>Xanthi, Greece<br><br></div><br>
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