[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 37, Issue 21
Kenneth Reid Beesley
krbeesley at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 22:31:11 CEST 2007
Jonathan,
Many thanks for the response.
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:00:57 +0100
> From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] New Hyphenation for Phonemic Orthographies for
> English?
> I'm not sure if anyone has yet tried to define hyphenation patterns
> for languages using supplementary-plane characters in XeTeX, but
> offhand I can't think of any reason it shouldn't work.
> In any case, the first question would be what the rules are
> supposed to be for hyphenation of English in these various
> orthographies; is there any established practice to follow, or will
> you be making up your own rules?
I'm not sure yet. There may be some precedents in old Deseret Alphabet
texts. I plan to start out small, fixing problems on a case-by-case basis.
What's the best way to go about it? I'm acquainted with the old
\hyphenation { ... }
command, but it doesn't seem to work with UTF-8.
Thanks,
Ken
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