[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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