[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Apr 1 20:41:45 CEST 2005


Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Aha, I've got it! The chief issue is that when you set \lccode values in 
> the sanhyph.tex file, you need to prefix the assignments with \global. 
> This is because the whole file is read within a group, so without 
> \global, the \lccode changes are lost after loading the patterns. And 
> this leads to the words being broken into separate runs during 
> hyphenation, and this in turn leads to the dotted circles (where a run 
> has an initial combining mark), etc.

Isn't xetex also etex? Inthat case the lccodes are stored with the language.

Hans

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