<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Maybe the fact that it is the first word and hence is not preceded by a glue?<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 25 mars 2021 à 12:10, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@Hellenic-Institute.Uk" class="">P.Taylor@Hellenic-Institute.Uk</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jonathan Kew wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:a9efb974-87ee-f911-385e-085a97c2543f@gmail.com" class="">The
output you're getting shows that the hyphenation is in fact
happening as expected. (To get a hyphen rather than a box, you
need to set the font's \hyphenchar appropriately.)<br class="">
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So what am I missing in my code, Jonathan ? I have added a
\hyphenchar, removed the pointless (and dysfunctional)
\showhyphens), but still get no hyphenation —<br class="">
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\catcode `\ = 10<br class="">
\catcode `\ = 10<br class="">
\catcode `\{ = 1<br class="">
\catcode `\} = 2<br class="">
\catcode `\^ = 7<br class="">
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\tracingonline = 1<br class="">
\tracinglostchars = 2<br class="">
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\font \tenrm = "Amiri"<br class="">
\tenrm<br class="">
\hyphenchar \font = `\‐<br class="">
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\lccode "200D = "200D<br class="">
\catcode "200D = 11<br class="">
\patterns {^^^^200d1^^^^200d}<br class="">
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\hsize = 0 pt<br class="">
bla^^^^200d^^^^200dbla<br class="">
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