* David Perry (hospes.pri...@verizon.net) wrote:
  |>  On CTAN I find the package xetex-greek, which looks like what I
  |>  should be using since I typeset everything with xe(la)tex.
  |>  
  |>  MiKTeX 2.7 provides some hyphenation options for Greek,
  |>  including ancient (see screen shot attached).  I am guessing
  |>  that these are older tools for plain LaTeX, not Xe(La)TeX,
  |>  perhaps for use with Babel.  And, in fact, the log file for a
  |>  recent document tells me that:
  |>  
  |>  Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
  |>  nohyphenation, german, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18,
  |>  ngerman-x-2008-06-18, french, ancientgreek, latin, loaded.
  |>  
  |>  This is a bit of a puzzle since the preamble loads polyglossia, not babel.
  |>  
  |>  Can somebody clarify this?  I've been doing Greek poetry
  |>  recently but will be doing some prose and will need hyphenation.
  |>  And how do I activate the patterns in xetex-greek, if that's
  |>  what I need (although perhaps I need to ask that on a MiKTeX
  |>  list).
  |>  
  |>  Thanks - David

As I'm on a Mac, the example I attach is perhaps irrelevant. I get proper 
hyphenation without any problem.
-- gildas


  |>  
  |>  
  |>  --------------------------------------------------
  |>  Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
  |>    http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex


==============================
Gildas Hamel
331 Plateau Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831 459 2669 (office)
831 325 5863 (cell)
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/gweltaz
==============================

Attachment: test_greek_hyph.tex
Description: TeX document


--------------------------------------------------
Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Reply via email to