[XeTeX] Polyglossia 1.0 and hyphenation command

Bernhard Fisseni bernhard.fisseni at uni-due.de
Tue Jul 22 20:12:32 CEST 2008


Hi, Tilman,


Am 22.07.2008 um 18:55 schrieb Tilman Hannemann:

> just beginning to work – quite happily – with polyglossia, I noticed
> that the manual override of hyphenation patterns  doesn't seem to
> work. Does the \hyphenation command somehow rely on babel features?
> Anybody got a clue how to activate manual hyphenation with
> polyglossia without having to write, e.g., Weih\-in\-schrift?
>
> A minimal example demonstrating the problem:
>
> \documentclass{scrbook}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{german}
> \hyphenation{Weih-in-schrift}
> \begin{document}
>
your example works for me if I put the \hyphenation after  
\begin{document} – probably the default language is only activated then?


Bernhard

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