[XeTeX] Hyphenation in XeTeX polyglossia
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sun May 17 16:51:34 CEST 2009
On May 17, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> I fixed the problem with the following:
>>
>> rm -rf ~/.texlive2008
>> fmtutil --showhyphen xelatex
>> fmtutil
>> --byhyphen /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/
>> language.dat
>
> Good to know, but if you want to be really safe, you should probably
> use fmtutil-sys instead of fmutil; the latter puts its output in
> ~/.texlive2008, while the former puts everything in the system-wide
> directory (hence you need to be sudoer) where it's less "hidden" for
> you.
>
> Arthur
Howdy,
Also, the use of the non`-sys' versions (prefixed by sudo) seems to
lead to all sorts of confusing behavior that takes too much time to
figure out. I'll bet the ~/.texlive directory is now recreated ready
to give rise to confusion at a later time.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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