[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation with XeLatex

[Sreenivasa Guttal]

Hi JK,

I made my attempt and looks it may take sometime to get familar with tex.
Since this may be a popular usage, I would appreciate if there is some
available solution that I can use readily.

Thanks,
Sreenivasa

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 16 Mar 2009, at 07:48, Sreenivasa Guttal wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sreenivasa Guttal <
> sreenivasa.guttal at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Yves Codet <ycodet at club-
> > internet.fr> wrote:
> > Sr
> > Another observation.
> > When there \footnote is preceding a word (without space), that word
> > does not get hyphenated.
> >
> >
> >
> > I wanted to know if there is a solution to the above mentioned issue.
> > i.e if \footnote precedes a word without space, the following word
> > does not get hyphenated.
> >
>
>
> This is an idiosyncrasy of how TeX decides which words to try
> hyphenating; see The TeXbook, p454, paragraph 2 (beginning "TeX looks
> for potentially hyphenatable words by searching ahead from each glue
> item that is not in a math formula.")
>
> The TeXbook also contains a solution (mentioned as part of the hanging
> punctuation example): look up \allowhyphens.
>
> JK
>
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