On 05/29/2010 09:21 PM, John Was wrote:
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
Hi John,
many thanks for your reply.
Sorry for not having answered before, but your reply was Greek to me (no
doubt, due to my own ignorance ;-)).
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.
What I don't understand why polyglossia is problematic when hyphenating
ancient Greek with LetterSpace.
Pure XeTeX is totally foreign to me and I would need to use LetterSpace
in a number of documents.
Is there no way to solve this?
Thanks for your help,
Pablo
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