[XeTeX] Polyglossia ancientgreek hyphenation

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:43:04 -0000 schrieb Robert Leigh:

> I have a question which has been asked and answered on this list -
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2009-May/013081.html - but the answer
> doesn't work.
> 
> Polyglossia can't see ancient greek hyphenation files.


> If I ask for {ancientgreek} I get an error message as below and the code
> dores not compile.. If I change this to {greek} I get a different set of
> error messages (2nd example below) but the code does then compile and I get
> a pdf which looks fine.

> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{ancientgreek}

The posting you mentioned doesn't load "ancientgreek" but greek with
variant ancient, so try:

\setdefaultlanguage[variant=ancient]{greek}


-- 
Ulrike Fischer