Hi all, > Why is this un-TeX ? > If it is definable then it should be programmable in TeX. > > There is a TeX command \nobreak which is meant > to bias against > a linebreak occurring at the point where it occurs in the > input. > It ought to be possible to use > \XeTeXinterchartoks to insert > \nobreak immediately before a given character, > within a > specified context.
Sorry, I read the original post as if to say "impossible to start a sentence with a certain character", for which I would say that it is up to the user to make sure that that character does not appear as the first character of a sentence (as opposed to Word etc which sometimes automagically change the first letters or characters of a sentence). When the question is whether a character cannot be the first on a line, then I would say that hyphenation rules etc would take care of it. In the case of "small yo", as in でしょ , as opposed to ですよ , some fonts may include ligatures (some guru please advise)? In Japanese alphabets these combinations with "small characters" (sorry, I forgot the real name) are usually interpreted as being one character. Cheers, Wilfred > > Indeed the whole TeX concept of \penalty is to > allow you to bias the > line-breaking and page-breaking algorithms, so as to > achieve whatever > you want, whilst letting TeX do the heavy work of > optimising details > of the visual appearance of your pages. > > > > > Cheerio, > > Wilfred > > > Hope this helps, > > Ross > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ross Moore > > r...@maths.mq.edu.au > Mathematics Department > > office: E7A-419 > Macquarie University > > tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 > Sydney, Australia 2109 > > fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
