[tex-hyphen] Possible error in hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek.

Philip Taylor P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Wed Nov 5 21:53:41 CET 2014


With "ancientgreek" selected, XeTeX hyphenates :

	Τῆ Εʹ τῆς ΚΑʹ ἑβδο<supplied>μάδος

as

	Τῆ Ε-ʹ τῆς ΚΑʹ ἑβδο<supplied>μάδος

i.e., between the Ε-majuscule and the number sign "ʹ".  A greek scholar 
tells me this should not occur.  Could the hyphenation team comment, 
please ?

\def \normalfonts
      {%
	\font \bodyfont = "Palatino Linotype"
	\font \italicbodyfont = "Palatino Linotype/I"
	\font \latinfont = "Palatino Linotype/I"
	\font \hebrewfont = "Arial Unicode MS"
	\font \headfont = "Arial Unicode MS/B:color=BF0000"
	\font \runningheadfont ="Arial Unicode MS/B:color=BF0000"
	\let \englishfont = \bodyfont
	\let \greekfont = \bodyfont
	\let \italicgreekfont = \italicbodyfont
	\bodyfont
      }	
	
\xmlinlineelement {language:Greek}{\uselanguage {ancientgreek} \ifitalic 
\italicgreekfont \else \greekfont \fi}{}

<foreign language="Greek">Τῆ Δʹ τῆς ΚΑʹ 
ἑβδο<supplied>μάδος</supplied></foreign>: Gal 1:18–2:5; p.≈131, col.~2, 
line~5-p.≈132, col.~2, line~21: <foreign language="Greek">Τῆ Εʹ τῆς ΚΑʹ 
ἑβδο<supplied>μάδος</supplied></foreign>: Gal 2:6–16; p.≈132, col.~2, 
lines~22–25: <foreign language="Greek"><supplied>Παρασκευῇ τῆς ΚΑʹ 
ἑβδομάδος</supplied></foreign>

Philip Taylor


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