[XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

2015-10-07 Thread Peter Mukunda Pasedach
Dear XeTeX list, in the following example, \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[para]{footmisc} \begin{document} \footnote{XX just a few normal words to fill up the line up to my word hy\-phe\-na\-te\-me} \end{document} the discretionary hyphens don't

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

2015-10-07 Thread Philip Taylor
A trailing space will help : \footnote{XX just a few normal words to fill up the line up to my x x x hy\-phe\-na\-te\-me } Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/x

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

2015-10-07 Thread Peter Mukunda Pasedach
You then get "hyphen-ateme", which is not among the list of possible hyphenation points I've specified. On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > A trailing space will help : > > \footnote{XX just a few normal words to fill up the line > up to my x x x hy\-phe\-na

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

2015-10-07 Thread Philip Taylor
Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote: > You then get "hyphen-ateme", which is not among the list of possible > hyphenation points I've specified. Yes, I realised that after I had posted, which confused me enormously. The presence of explicit discretionaries within a word is supposed to inhibit normal w

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

2015-10-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
I have no time to look deep into it but does anybody know what is the definition of \- if these packages is used? Isn't is possible that it is a fragile macro? I remember one thing from Phil Taylor's tutorial held on EuroTeX'92 in Prague. He said that the most frequent error is wrong timing of expa