[XeTeX] preventing hyphenation

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:13:03 -0500 schrieb Mike Maxwell:

> In a grammar we're writing, the gloss of a word "xowunʣāy" gets 
> hyphenated immediately after the 'x'.  I thought I could prevent this by 
> adding the command
>     \hyphenation{xowunʣāy}
> near the beginning of the file (before the \begin{document} command). 
> However, this has no effect; the word still gets hyphenated.
> 
> The paragraph of text in the input is
>     Applies to nouns (including verbal nouns) and
>     adjectives. \pusArabicScript{ښوون(ه)} /xowun(a)/  \emph{teaching};
>     \pusArabicScript{ښوونځای} /xowunʣāy/  \emph{schoolhouse}.
> where \pusArabicScript is our command to switch into Arabic script.
> 
> Any idea why the \hyphenation{} command is ineffective?

Did you activate the correct language?


-- 
Ulrike Fischer