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:
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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
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
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
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.
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