Hello
In plain XeTeX I find the passage in the URL works OK with letter-spaced
Greek if I give at the start:
\font \myfont = "MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=12" at
12pt
\tolerance 500
\myfont
\hsize 24pc
However, XeTeX doesn't know how to hyphenate Greek so to avoid overfull
rules I have to give \- explicitly at legitimate breakpoints where the
overfull rules occur. It's possible to invoke some of the old Babel
hyphenation patterns by using eplain (\input eplain) but unfortunately
Babel's Greek hyphenation patterns (in the hyphenation file polutonigreek)
are not tied to UTF Greek so have no effect. I don't know if Babel is being
actively maintained (since Polyglossia, which requires LaTeX, is a much more
sophisticated replacement), but if it were possible to update its
hyphenation patterns to cope with UTF input, that would be a very welcome
feature for plain (Xe)TeX users.
Best
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pablo RodrÃguez" <oi...@web.de>
To: <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 29 May 2010 19:35
Subject: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul
Hi Jonathan and others,
some days ago, I asked for a way to enable soul to properly emphasize by
letterspacing an ancient Greek text.
Jonathan replied that Letterspace should be the way to go. It doesn't seem
to work, since the first line on page 6 from
http://www.ousia.tk/grammatike.pdf shows that hyphenation is simply
broken.
I wonder whether this is normal behaviour or it should be considered as a
bug in XeTeX.
Thanks for your help,
Pablo
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