[XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

[Vafa Khalighi]

OTT: I did not know much about Sanskrit. It was interesting to know that it
is a close relative of Avestan (the language that we Iranians spoke in
ancient times) however Avestan is written from right to left.

2011/10/5 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>

> 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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