Hello all, I'd never had (or noticed) that problem before, so I don't know if it's a new thing or something I do that does not comply. The problem is simple, hyphenation occurs between an apostrophe and the word it follows : l'information in my case becomes l'-information. I'm using the latest updated 2010 MacTeX. I didn't find anything helpful in my searches online, so, since I cannot change the text (it's an article from Le Monde) what can I do?
In making the small version I include here, I also noticed something
surprising: the hyphenation changed depending on the length of the text I cut
*after*. Leaving one sentence or two did not give the same results. Cutting
immediately after the sentence gave the correct l'in-formation and
l'infor-mation was what I got when cutting before De toute part.
I also noticed that including or not
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
changes things quite a bit while \frenchspacing did nothing obvious. I thought
it would deal with spaces around the guillemets etc. but no. I'm wondering why
I bothered including it. Is that a benefit from polyglossia?
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%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm, includeheadfoot]{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper, centering}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Numbers=OldStyle]{Warnock Pro}
\lccode"2019="0027
%\frenchspacing
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
\setlength{\parskip}{\medskipamount}
%\title{La méthode Sarkozy dans l'impasse}
%\author{Denis Muzet}
\begin{document}
Jamais le concept de « mal-info » n'a été aussi adapté pour décrire la
transformation de notre rapport à l'information. Avec la crise, le « bruit de
fond » de l'information a monté, au point que notre écosystème médiatique s'en
est trouvé altéré. Car il s'agit aussi d'une crise de l'information. Certes
toute crise voit la circulation de celle-ci s'accélérer, mais aujourd'hui
l'horizon que doit surveiller l'honnête homme qui cherche à s'informer est
devenu mondial. De toute part, il est bombardé de nouvelles plus brèves et
moins compréhensibles les unes que les autres. Son entendement est submergé.
\end{document}
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Any pointers welcome. Cyril
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