[XeTeX] hyphenation cancelled through footnote

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:35:56 +0100 schrieb
hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de:

> When editing Sanskrit texts with very long compounds, avoiding manual  
> hyphenation is extremely time
> saving. XeLaTeX fortunately takes care of this, but the mechanism is  
> cancelled by footnotes within
> the compounded word. In the example below the \varc{}{} causes the  
> error. Any idea on how to enable
> hyphenation under such conditions?

I see no difference with and without \varc. In both cases I get an
overful line. 

What texsystem are you using?

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/