[tex-hyphen] biblical typesetting and hyphenation in hebrew

[Petr Sojka]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:36:07PM +0300, Avi Wollman wrote:
> I want Tex to hyphenate a word that???s already been hyphenated. In
> hebrew hyphenation is done to connect two words, but that doesn't mean
> I can't break that connecting and leave the hyphen for the next line.
> I'm using Miktex 2.8 with XeTex in utf-8.
> i did the following with all the hypens and it didn't help.
> \def\hyph{??\penalty0\hskip0pt\relax}
> \def\hyph{??\penalty0\hskip0pt\relax}
> \def\hyph{-\penalty0\hskip0pt\relax}
I am not sure I understand you correctly, but try
\def\allowhyphens{\nobreak\hskip0pt\relax}
\def\hyph{\allowhyphens\dicretionary{-}{-}{-}\allowhyphens}
and `configure' the \dicretionary command for what you need.
HTH,
Petr

> any other ideas ?
> 
> Thank you
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