[XeTeX] Greek Hyphenation (monotoniko)

Yves Codet ycodet at club-internet.fr
Thu Jan 12 17:41:38 CET 2006


Le 11 janv. 06, à 16:07, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>
> %%%% start of test file
>
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
>
> \setromanfont[Script=Greek]{Galatia SIL}
> \language=\greek
>
> \title{}
> \author{}
> \date{}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> % force hyphenation
> \sloppy \lefthyphenmin=1 \righthyphenmin=1 \hsize=1pt
>
> \hskip0pt νεμοντες % no diacritic
>
> \hskip0pt νέμοντες % precomposed
>
> \hskip0pt νέμοντες % decomposed
>
> \hskip0pt ειδον % no diacritic
>
> \hskip0pt εἶδον % precomposed
>
> \hskip0pt εἶδον % decomposed
>
> \end{document}
>
> %%%% end
>
> A clipping showing the result is attached. Note that with the first 
> word, I get a hyphen after the first epsilon in all cases (unaccented, 
> precomposed with acute, or with separate acute diacritic). But with 
> the second word, the hyphen after iota is lacking in the precomposed 
> case.
>
> <texshop_image.pdf>
> I'm currently puzzled by this behavior, as I can't see why the 
> patterns would fail to work here. So I wonder if there's an underlying 
> XeTeX bug that I need to track down.
>

With your test file I don't have the same result as you: the 
precomposed version of εἶδον is hyphenated but not the decomposed one.

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I hope it won't make things more complicated.

Best wishes,

Yves



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