Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-07 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:43:41PM +0530, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > The new polyglossia in TeXlive 2011 just updated from CTAN, to version > 1.2.0b. Thanks everyone!!! Note that this only adds xkeyval to polyglossia; it does not change anything else and does in particular not correct the odd hy

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-07 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
The new polyglossia in TeXlive 2011 just updated from CTAN, to version 1.2.0b. Thanks everyone!!! Dominik -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-05 Thread Vafa Khalighi
The earliest time Avestan was written was the time of Zoroaster. Gatha, the teaching of Zoroaster (Iranian prophet) was written in Avestan. Also the rest of Avesta had been also written in Avestan. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > You say "is". ("Is written l2r"). Whe

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-04 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
You say "is". ("Is written l2r"). When was Avestan first written, as opposed to recited and passed orally from teacher to pupil? Was the earliest writing in Iran a direct ancestor of the present script? Ah, third century AD, Din Dabireh, etc. In India, early Sanskrit works were not written do

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-04 Thread 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 > 2011/10/5 Arthur Reutenauer : > >> Thanks. I will try this a

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-04 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/5 Arthur Reutenauer : >> 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

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-04 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> 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 actua

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-03 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:20:54 -0700 (PDT) schrieb NEAL DELMONICO: > Thanks. I tried that and it does solve the English hyphenation. I was > wondering if it affected the Sanskrit hyphenation. Apparently it does. > Fortunately, I don't have much Sanskrit in this book. But, there may be > ramif

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-02 Thread NEAL DELMONICO
these again? Best, Neal From: Arthur Reutenauer To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms Sent: Sun, October 2, 2011 9:32:35 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations > I have been through the introduction and fi

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-02 Thread NEAL DELMONICO
s. I have to go to campus in order to get on the internet. Best wishes, Neal From: Dominik Wujastyk To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms Sent: Sat, October 1, 2011 3:49:18 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations Try removing \setotherlan

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-02 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> I have been through the introduction and first > chapter correcting the mistaken hyphenations by hand. Please don't do that, it is a total waste of your own time. There is a bug in Polyglossia. It needs to be fixed, but for the time being it's enough if you add

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread NEAL DELMONICO
Yes, I agree. Unix is my preferred platform. I use Windows reluctantly and with trepidation. Best Neal From: Peter Dyballa To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms Sent: Fri, September 30, 2011 12:38:22 PM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Odd

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
>So something is wrong with > polyglossia, from which I suppose the command comes from. Yes, that must be the problem. Last time I checked, Polyglossia used \AtBeginDocument to set \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin, and a side-effect of that may be that the docu

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2011 um 19:03 schrieb Neal Delmonico: > How does one do this on a Windows machine? I don't know; and I prefer to use other Windows, those I can open and close. -- Greetings Pete Encryption, n.: A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed in the creation of computer

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Neal Delmonico
Oh and I forgot to mention, I checked the texlive directory and only 2009 is listed. In my Windows menus I have both TeXlive 2009 and 2010. The only one that has a link to the Texline Manager is the 2009/ best Neal On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:39:32 -0500, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 30.09.2

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Neal Delmonico
How does one do this on a Windows machine? In Unix it is easy enough, but the machine I am working on is Windows 7. On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:39:32 -0500, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 30.09.2011 um 17:26 schrieb NEAL DELMONICO: I assume the new progs were copied over the old ones. No, Neal,

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2011 um 17:26 schrieb NEAL DELMONICO: > I assume the new progs were copied over the old ones. No, Neal, this does never happen. > Is that okay, or should I do a clean install and update to 2011? You should update PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH instead. Look at /usr/local/texlive! You'll se

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 30/09/2011 16:26, NEAL DELMONICO a écrit : Greetings All, I am having some problems with hyphenation in English and wonder if I am missing something important in my header file. The hyphenation program seems to be misfiring since it gives the following hyphenations: n-ear, s-mall, b-lissf

[XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread NEAL DELMONICO
Greetings All, I am having some problems with hyphenation in English and wonder if I am missing something important in my header file. The hyphenation program seems to be misfiring since it gives the following hyphenations: n-ear, s-mall, b-lissful, s-miling, y-our, and many more like this.