[XeTeX] word breaking in languages like telugu, sanskrit

[Alan Munn]

On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Kattamuri Ekanadham wrote:

> Long time ago Yves Codet  wrote ...
>
> With XeLaTeX, if you use the package "polyglossia", hyphenation
> patterns (included in the package "hyph-utf8") corresponding to the
> language you select will be applied. For instance:
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
> \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit2003}
>
> I can see that "hyph-utf8" has patterns for several other Indian
> languages:
>        http://www.tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/
> which will be part of the next TeX Live. And Fran?ois will certainly
> be willing to add support for those languages to his "polyglossia".
>
> I am still unable to use polyglossia .. perhaps some version  
> problem...
> I am getting the following error... any advice?

Yes, as the message says, your version of fontspec is very out of date  
(two years old, in fact.).  Ideally you need to update your whole TeX  
distribution.

Alan

>
> LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 20, version
>                `2010/06/08' of package fontspec,
>                but only version
>                `2008/08/09 v1.18 Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX'
>                is available.
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.21 \ExplSyntaxOn
>
>
>
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