Am Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:55:50 +0530 schrieb Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ): > Hi, > > I am trying to demo XeTeX for a Tamil conference coming up in a couple of > days from now. > I am not able to make words break although I try different things. > I found that Santhosh Thottingal's hyphenation patterns is there > (texmf\tex\generic\hyph-utf8\patterns\hyph-ta.tex) > and it does get loaded by > texmf\tex\generic\hyph-utf8\loadhyph\loadhyph-ta.tex file also. > But I am not able to break any word at all.
Well you are using the french language (\usepackage[french]{babel}) so naturally it will not use tamil hyphenation. Try \hyphenrules{tamil} at the start of the document (after \begin{document}) or \begin{hyphenrule}{tamil} ... \end{hyphenrules}} if you want the hyphenation only for some parts of your document. You should also consider to use \usepackage[french]{polyglossia} instead of babel. -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex