[XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 16:25:47 CET 2015


Hi Philip,

--- 2015-10-31 20:23 GMT+05:30 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
| It seems to me, Shakthi, (and I know nothing about the rules for Tamil
| typography) that XeLaTeX does not know how to hyphenate Tamil words;
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I don't want the words to be hyphenated and split across lines.

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| perhaps it is impossible, or simply "not done".  So the best I can do
| (and I also do not have your preferred font,
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I use fonts-lohit-taml-classical installed on Ubuntu using:

  $ sudo apt-get install fonts-lohit-taml-classical

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| Unicode MS) is to set \emergencystretch to a sufficiently large value to
| allow your text to justify without hyphenation :
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That is exactly what I wanted, and it worked.

Thanks a lot! Appreciate it.

SK

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