[XeTeX] Hyphenation exceptions for German -- how?

[Arno Trautmann]

Hi Thomas,

short answer: use \hyphenation after \begin{document}, then it works.
However, I've been wondering for a while now why this is the case – can 
someone explain this behaviour?

cheers
Arno

Thomas Fehige wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to typeset a book with XeLaTeX. The main language is German,
> there will be other assorted Western languages like French, British
> English, Italian and Latin in small doses. I'm trying to enter
> hyphenation exeptions for German. The \hyphenation{...} command I used
> to use with pdfeLaTeX and the babel package seems not to work. What am I
> missing? Below is a minimal program that shows what I'm talking about.
> Oh yes, in case this is relevant: I'm using the TeX Live 2010
> distribution on a Windows computer.
>
> Thank you for your time -- Thomas
>
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{german}
>
> \hyphenation{
> einer
> Me-ta-ethik
> }
>
> \begin{document}
> \showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
> % that gives me "Me-tae-thik" and "ei-ner",
> % the former wrong, the latter ugly.
> \end{document}
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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