On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:14:13AM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote: > So how is it that \showhyphens does not show these hyphenation points, That is a known issue with Knuth's \showhyphens in XeTeX's way of forming "native" word nodes AFAIK, xltxtra package has a modified \showhyphens from Jonathan that should work with XeTeX. Regards, Khaled