[tex-live] [tex-hyphen] CZ/SK in babel for TL 08

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Thu Jul 17 19:01:58 CEST 2008


On 17 Jul 2008, at 2:37 PM, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> "ZW" == Zdenek Wagner writes:
>
> ZW> CZ/SK hyphenation works both in xelatex and (pdf)latex in T1. I am
> ZW> surprized that \showhyphens does not work in xelatex but in a real
> ZW> text the words are hyphenated correctly.
>
> xetex needs a redefined \showhyphens, you need to \usepackage{xltxtra}
> to get the working \showhyphens in xetex.

Right. To be more precise, this is true if using Unicode/OpenType  
fonts. The \showhyphens from plain.tex will of course work the same as  
always when using TFMs.

JK



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