[tex-live] babel can't find hyphenation pattern with xetex

[Axel E. Retif]

On  16 May, 2009, at 09:45, Bogdan Burlacu wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm using the latest TexLive distribution, and compiling my documents
> with xelatex (for unicode support). The problem is with
> the hyphenation pattern. On a regular tex file, latex output shows:
>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, nohyphenation, ancientgreek, ibycus, monogreek, greek,  
> latin,
> romanian, ukenglish, loaded.
>
> I'm interested in the romanian hyphenation support.
>
> However, xelatex shows:
>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, nohyphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18,
> basque, catalan, czech, dutch, french, galician, german, ngerman,
> italian, polish, portuguese, slovak, spanish, ukenglish, loaded.
>
> Why are they different? Is there a separate configuration file for  
> xetex
> hyphenation?

I don't use XeLaTeX myself, but yes, it works better with polyglossia.  
There is a very helpful XeTeX mailing list:

http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Best,

Axel