[XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 02:49:31 CEST 2011


2011/10/5 Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org>:
>> Thanks.  I will try this and uncomment the \setotherlanguage{Sanskrit}.  That
>> way if there are any hyphenations in the Hindi verse, they will occur
>> correctly.  Am I correct in thinking this?
>
>  You've got it mostly right.  I was going to write a detailed and
> intricate answer, but it's actually simpler to just say: wait for me to
> fix the bug in Polyglossia, and you should be fine :-)  Until then,
> though, you need to make sure that any run of English text is preceded
> by the right settings of \left- and \righthyphenmin, otherwise bad
> things will happen -- as you've experienced.
>
>  You've got me confused on one point, though: is it Sanskrit or Hindi
> text you're typesetting?  Not that it makes such a difference; and in
> the latter case we don't have hyphenation patterns for transliterated
> Hindi anyway, so the Sanskrit ones should do a reasonable job.
>
At least delmonico.pdf is Sanskrit. It seems to me as a part of Bhagavadgita.

>        Arthur
>
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