[XeTeX] Hyphenation again…

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Jul 2006, at 11:24 pm, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2006, at 4:54 pm, Florian Grammel wrote:
>> ...
>> Using XeLaTeX, only the \selectlanguage{}-command works and sets
>> the hyphenation for the whole paragraph –- the exceptions are
>> ignored.
>>
>> \foreignlanguage is ignored in the same way.
>> This seems not to be language-specific.
>> I'm using up-to-date teTeX (i-installer), babel, XeTeX and fontspec
>> on 10.4.7 (PPC).
>
> Looks like you've found a bug in xetex. Note that the critical factor
> is not actually whether you're running standard tex or xetex, but
> whether you're using a TFM-based font like CM or a native system font
> like those you load with fontspec. That's when the language-change
> fails.

Just a note to confirm that this is definitely a xetex bug. It is now  
fixed in the source code (rev. 301), so when version 0.995 appears,  
language-switching within paragraphs should work correctly with  
native fonts.

Thanks for the report, and my apologies for the frustration!

JK