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Dear fellow Xe(La)TeXers,<BR>
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I would appreciate any clues on the following problem:<BR>
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I am writing a french document, using the <TT>\usepackage[francais]{babel}</TT> directive in my preamble.<BR>
Some lines of text aren't hyphenated automatically, most of the time because there doesn't seem to be hyphenation rules<BR>
in the hyphenation dictionary for words preceded by "l'" such as in my test document, "l'oscilloscope".<BR>
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I tried suggesting new rules using the \hyphenation{oscillo-scope} rule, but it does only affect the word "oscilloscope" when it is preceded<BR>
and followed by a space. I can't seem to find a way to tell it to use \hyphenation{l'oscilloscope} without it issuing a warning such as:<BR>
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<TT>* Local config file frenchb.cfg used</TT><BR>
<TT>*</TT><BR>
<TT>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg)))</TT><BR>
<TT>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/scalefnt.sty)</TT><BR>
<TT>! Not a letter.</TT><BR>
<TT>l.11 \hyphenation{l'</TT><BR>
<TT> oscillo-scope}</TT><BR>
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Any ideas? I've included the test document below.<BR>
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Also, I guess I should test it with polyglossia, but I have never used it (and don't have much time to RTM for now). Is it hard to set up?<BR>
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<TT>% Test document</TT><BR>
<TT>\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,oneside,draft]{memoir}</TT><BR>
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<TT>\usepackage{fontspec}</TT><BR>
<TT>\usepackage{xunicode}</TT><BR>
<TT>\usepackage[francais]{babel}</TT><BR>
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<TT>\hyphenation{l'oscillo-scope}</TT><BR>
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<TT>\begin{document}</TT><BR>
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<TT>l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope</TT><BR>
<TT>l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope</TT><BR>
<TT>l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope</TT><BR>
<TT>l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope l'oscilloscope</TT><BR>
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<TT>\end{document}</TT><BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Maxim
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