[XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-06 Thread Andrew Goldstone
Hello: I am attempting to assist a colleague, who is new to TeX, in typesetting a text which includes many passages in which Burmese and Latin scripts are closely intermixed. I wanted to make it possible for my colleague to enter his text fairly naturally, as he is used to doing in Word, by simply

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-06 Thread Shree Devi Kumar
You can try https://github.com/Pomax/ucharclasses I have used it in past with Devanagari, Tamil, Gujarati scripts and English. On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 11:23 AM Andrew Goldstone wrote: > Hello: I am attempting to assist a colleague, who is new to TeX, in > typesetting a text which includes many pas

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-06 Thread Andrew Goldstone
Thank you for the hint about ucharclasses! That saves my writing the \XeTeXinterchartoks lines myself and does (rather mysteriously?) seem to avoid the segfault in conjunction with \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=2. The \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "my" still looks wrong--it breaks a ligature (i.e. a conjunct

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You can try https://github.com/Pomax/ucharclasses No need to use the version from github. TeXLive is up to date. Werner