[XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

2015-10-31 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I have a foo.tex input file written in Tamil, which I use with xelatex to generate a PDF. How can I do both left and right justification for the text? Right now, it is only aligned only the left. See: http://shakthimaan.com/tmp/foo.pdf The xelatex version in Ubuntu 14.10 is given below: $

Re: [XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

2015-10-31 Thread Philip Taylor
Shakthi Kannan wrote: > I have a foo.tex input file written in Tamil, which I use with xelatex > to generate a PDF. How can I do both left and right justification for > the text? Right now, it is only aligned only the left. It seems to me, Shakthi, (and I know nothing about the rules for Tamil

Re: [XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

2015-10-31 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi Philip, --- 2015-10-31 20:23 GMT+05:30 Philip Taylor : | 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; \-- I don't want the words to be hyphenated and split across lines. --- | perhaps it is imposs

Re: [XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

2015-10-31 Thread Yves Codet
Hello. There are Tamil hyphenation patterns in TeXLive 2015: hyph-ta.tex written by Santhosh Thottingal, which is included in the package « hyph-utf8 ». You can load them through Polyglossia with: \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{tamil} in your preamble. Regards, Yves Codet > Le

Re: [XeTeX] Right and left justification for a paragraph

2015-10-31 Thread Philip Taylor
Yves Codet wrote: > There are Tamil hyphenation patterns in TeXLive 2015: hyph-ta.tex > written by Santhosh Thottingal, which is included in the package « > hyph-utf8 ». You can load them through Polyglossia with: > > \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{tamil} > > in your preamble. A