[XeTeX] buggy hyphenation in XeTeX?

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2007, at 10:00 pm, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>> The problem is ancient Greek hyphenation, where I get a letter  
>> alone in
>> a line (and the problem is that the author noticed this yesterday). A
>> way to avoid this would be (I hope) to mark the offending occurrences
>> with \-. Even if kerning in the word is lost.
> 
> Have you tried entering the problem word(s) in the \hyphenation{...}  
> exceptions (for the appropriate language)? That should allow you to  
> override whatever the patterns are finding, and might be simpler than  
> solving the underlying problem right now, if you're under time  
> constraints.

I'll try that. I guess that the problem comes when the hyphen has to be
after an accented character (but I have to check and confirm this later).


Pablo