[XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Peter Mukunda Pasedach
Dear XeTeX list, I am dealing with a collection of texts in Sanskrit, for which the builtin limitation of TeX to not perform hyphenation after the 63rd character of a string is imposing a serious limitation, as such strings do occur. One reason for this is that one can freely form very long compou

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 15/3/16 14:24, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote: Dear XeTeX list, I am dealing with a collection of texts in Sanskrit, for which the builtin limitation of TeX to not perform hyphenation after the 63rd character of a string is imposing a serious limitation, as such strings do occur. One reason for

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Peter Mukunda Pasedach
Dear Jonathan, yes, recompiling xetex is fine! At 255 characters I still have 32 occurences left, at 500 two, and at 1000 zero. Thanks for looking into this! Peter On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 15/3/16 14:24, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote: >> >> Dear XeTeX list, >> >

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Doug McKenna
There could be some subtle problems that simply changing the character count constant causes. In particular, the allocation size of a "whatsit" language node might also need changing, which would require adjusting other code in the core engine that assumes a default small size for that language

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 15/3/16 18:04, Doug McKenna wrote: There could be some subtle problems that simply changing the character count constant causes. In particular, the allocation size of a "whatsit" language node might also need changing, which would require adjusting other code in the core engine that assumes

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-03-16 0:06 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Kew : > On 15/3/16 18:04, Doug McKenna wrote: > >> There could be some subtle problems that simply changing the character >> count constant causes. >> >> In particular, the allocation size of a "whatsit" language node might >> also need changing, which would requ