[XeTeX] Greek Hyphenation (monotoniko)

[Jonathan Kew]

On 9 Jan 2006, at 2:29 pm, Malte Rosenau wrote:

> Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X <xetex at tug.org> schrieb am 09.01.06  
> 13:53:48:
>
>> ....
>
>> One further issue to consider would be composed vs. decomposed text;
>> this file uses precomposed letters for the vowels with tonos or
>> dieresis, but these could also be encoded as sequences of vowel +
>> diacritic. So additional rules should be included to recognize those
>> forms as well. This is left as an exercise for the reader.... :-)
>
> Thanks to both of you. This is really helpful.
>
> BTW: Wouldn't it be better to use a separate language.dat for
> XeTeX? And are there any other problems to be expected when
> I use Babel? Isn't there a lot of other localized stuff (numbering,
> dates, section names) that is not Unicode?

Yes, there's probably some such stuff. However, if that "localized  
stuff" is expressed using LaTeX control sequences (rather than  
directly as 8-bit character codes in some legacy font encoding),  
Ross's xunicode.sty package may be able to sort things out for you...  
I'm afraid I don't use any of this stuff, so I'm not really sure how  
it all interacts.

JK