[XeTeX] No-Break Space

[enrico.gregorio at univr.it]

BPJ wrote:

> Thanks, I'll try it.  What about *before* the dot?
> Will \newunicodechar{·}{\hspace{0pt}\nobreak·\nobreak\hspace{0pt}}
> do the trick? Although most dots appear after prefixes some
> don't, and some prefixes are long too.

Everything before MIDDLE DOT will be hyphenated normally. My test was

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} % it has MIDDLE DOT
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{·}{·\nobreak\hspace{0pt}}
\begin{document}
\hsize=3pt % everything will be hyphenated

\noindent x environmental·environment
\end{document}

The initial x is just because (Xe)TeX doesn't hyphenate the first word in
a paragraph. You'll see that "environmental" is hyphenated.

Ciao
Enrico

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