Perhaps try adding the following early enough in your document (before
any use of U+200B).
\catcode"200B=13 % (active)
\def ^^^^200b{\discretionary{}{}{}}
Regards,
Bruno
On 9/30/19 1:05 PM, Roland Kuhn via XeTeX wrote:
> From a programmer’s perspective it is usually much nicer to not have
> special cases: if U+200B were just a space (i.e. eligible for line
> breaks) then the rest would follow normally. Now, it could make sense to
> retrofit a font during font loading with a trivial definition of U+200B
> if it does not already provide one.
>
> Disclaimer: I am not familiar with the XeTeX codebase, just commenting
> from the peanut gallery.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
>> 30 sep. 2019 kl. 11:57 skrev Suki Venkat:
>>
>> Exactly!
>> That's how all the browsers seems to behave anyway,
>> i.e., treating 200B as potential point for a line-break,
>> even if it is not defined in the font.
>>
>> Suki
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 4:55 AM Mike Maxwell wrote:
>>
>> On 9/29/2019 3:02 PM, Suki Venkat wrote:
>> > Then went on to hack the hyph-ta.texfile and did "mktexfmt xelatex"
>> > to produce nice results using XeLaTeX.
>> > It turned out the uni200B was not defined in the font, although
>> uni200C
>> > and uni200D were defined.
>> > Then managed define uni200B in fontforge and it does seem to
>> produce the
>> > same result even if the uni200B (ZWSP or DLB) is defined in the
>> font or not.
>>
>> I'm speaking from ignorance here--I know nothing of the internal
>> workings of xetex--but it seems to me that the question of defining a
>> glyph for U+200B is beside the point. It should not, it seems to me,
>> have a glyph. Instead, xetex should break the line or not when it
>> encounters this code point, and then--regardless of the line
>> break--delete the character. It's a zero width character, and its
>> height is irrelevant (unlike a strut), so there's no shape to show.
>> --
>> Mike Maxwell
>> "I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous
>> period, ere time itself can be said to have begun;
>> for time began with man." --Herman Melville,
>> Moby Dick
>>
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