[XeTeX] weird hyphenation

Pablo Rodríguez oinos at web.de
Wed May 6 19:36:44 CEST 2009


Peter Baker wrote:
> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> tables appropriately for Unicode, but then latex.ltx overrides the  
>> assignments for certain codepoints in the 0x80..FF range based on T1  
>> encoding. IIRC, the .ini file was updated for TL'08 so that these  
>> codes are reset properly after loading latex.ltx, so this problem was  
>> fixed at that time (I think).
>>
>> JK
>>
>>   
> I'll just add, Pablo, that it's dead easy to use the TL2008 distribution 
> instead of the TL2007 that comes with your distribution. (Are you using 
> Ubuntu? Why oh why are they still distributing TL2007?)

Thanks for the reply and your tip. I didn't intend to mention it, but 
since you are the one doing it, I'm going to explain it.

I'm not using TL2008 because my distribution (Mandriva) doesn't come 
with it. But I'm afraid that no major distribution offers it.

It seems that it is such a complicated task technically and legally 
(there are too many packages with an unclear copyright status in 
TeXLive), that no one done it yet.

At worst, TL2009 might not be shipped with any major distribution again.

I know I could install TL2008 on my computer, but I'd avoid it if a 
working version is packaged for my distribution (modular design requires 
dependencies to be satisfied).

And I hope TeXLive will be packed again with major Linux distributions.

Thanks for your help,


Pablo


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