[XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul

[Pablo Rodríguez]

On 05/24/2010 06:06 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:15 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
> [...]
>
> Ah. Bingo. soul.sty defines the fix font \SOUL at tt
> (\font\SOUL at tt=ectt1000) and use it in various places when analyzing
> the input. And obviously one gets problems as soon as words ends
> with glyphs not existing in the font as this leads to boxes of width
> 0 and so soul thinks that there is no longer something to process.
>
> I can solve the problem with the euro sign by resetting the font to
> latin modern typewriter with
> \makeatletter \font\SOUL at tt="LMMono10-Regular"\makeatletter
>
> With your greek characters you probably will need a greek fixed
> width font.

Many thanks for your help, Ulrike.

FreeMono-Regular seems to do the job.

But I get error messages from soul (Reconstruction failed) when there 
are blank spaces.

\documentclass[10pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Theano Didot}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{greek}
\usepackage{soul}
\makeatletter\font\SOUL at tt="FreeMono-Normal"\makeatletter
\begin{document}
\so{ἐπεστείλατέ μοι νομίζειν δεῖν τὴν διάνοιαν ὑμῶν εἶναι τὴν αὐτὴν ἣν 
εἶχεν καὶ Δίων, καὶ δὴ καὶ κοινωνεῖν διεκελεύεσθέ μοι, καθ᾽ ὅσον οἷός τέ 
εἰμι ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ. ἐγὼ δέ, εἰ μὲν δόξαν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχετε 
ἐκείνῳ, σύμφημι κοινωνήσειν, εἰ δὲ μή, βουλεύσεσθαι πολλάκις. τίς δ᾽ ἦν 
ἡ ἐκείνου διάνοια καὶ ἐπιθυμία, σχεδὸν οὐκ εἰκάζων ἀλλ᾽ ὡς εἰδὼς σαφῶς 
εἴποιμ᾽ ἄν.}
\end{document}

Is there any way to solve it?

Thanks for your help again,


Pablo