[XeTeX] no hyphenation with fontspec

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 21 Dec 2006, at 4:24 pm, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> 
>> I wanted to show
>>  a missing hyphenation on a document of mine, such as:
>> [...]
>> 
> If you change "d’Aristote" to "d'Aristote" (look carefully: I've  
> replaced your curly apostrophe U+2019 with a straight ASCII one U 
> +0027), then you'll find that a hyphen position is found. The reason  
> is that the patterns are written for legacy TeX-encoded text, using  
> the ASCII apostrophe, and there is no similar pattern with U+2019.
> 
> I suppose we could look at patching the French patterns to deal with  
> this, but I'm trying to avoid maintaining separate pattern files for  
> xetex; I'd rather see the "master" pattern files extended and  
> organized better.
> 
> As a workaround, you can add a line in your preamble:
> 
>    \lccode`\’=`\'
> 
> or if you want to make it more explicit:
> 
>    \lccode"2019="27
> 
> This will cause the curly apostrophe to be treated the same as the  
> straight ASCII one for the purposes of hyphenation, so xetex will  
> find the expected break. (Provided you don't use something else that  
> overrides this code.)

Thanks, it works fine.

Now I have another issue, I need to hyphenate Frommann--Holzboog the
same way as Frommann---Holzboog.

Adding \lccode"2013="2014 at the beginning of the document does the job,
 but if u+2013 happens to be the last character before the line end,
xetex adds a hyphen and the word will be hyphenated "Frommann–- Holzboog".

How could I avoid the insertion of the hyphen?

Thanks again for your help,


Pablo