[XeTeX] Hyphenation of compound words in XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 18 Oct 2004, at 8:44 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Which brings another question (unfortunately I've left my copy of the 
> TeXbook at work): is there a way to instruct TeX (or XeTeX, for that 
> matter) that lines can be broken at the explicit hyphen in 
> small-amplitude or half-plane, for example.

That should be permitted by default in TeX (unless \exhyphenpenalty is 
 >= 10000, or the current font's \hyphenchar is not the hyphen). It 
won't work in XeTeX (with AAT/OT fonts) because of the current 
hyphenation bug, but that's fixed for the next release.

JK