[XeTeX] Hyphenation in polyglossia - Latin and Greek

Nikos Platis nplatis at freemail.gr
Sat May 16 11:00:47 CEST 2009


Maybe a setup problem?
Have you checked your language settings? I don't have a MikTeX installation
handy but one of the MikTeX programs, "MikTeX Options" (?) has a tab on
languages. You should check that latin and greek are selected and that you
have the relevant hyphenation files.



On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 05:43, David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net>wrote:

> I'm using polyglossia and have text in Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew as
> well as modern languages.  Polyglossia is in fact being loaded (Hebrew works
> correctly in right to left!) but I can't get hyphenation in Latin or ancient
> Greek.  I'm using MiKTeX 2.7, and I see "gloss-latin.ldf" and
> "gloss-greek.ldf" in the appropriate directory. MiKTeX also includes Latin
> hypenation files (lahyph.tex and xu-lahyph.tex.  What am I missing?
>  Portions of code below.
>
> Thanks - David
>
> ERROR MESSAGES:
> Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
> Monotonic Greek
> (polyglossia)                I will use the patterns loaded for
> l at greekinstead
>  on input line 326.
>
>
> Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
> Ancient Greek
> (polyglossia)                I will use the patterns loaded for
> \l at greekinstead
>  on input line 331.
>
> ) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\xelatex\polyglossia\gloss-latin.ldf"
>
> Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
> `latin'
> (polyglossia)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
> (polyglossia)                instead on input line 6.
>
> CODE:
>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage[variant=american]{english}
> \setotherlanguage[variant=ancient,attic=true]{greek}
> \setotherlanguages{latin,hebrew}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{greek}
> Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ
> ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν
> Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ δι᾽ ἣν
> αἰτίην ἐπολέμησαν ἀλλήλοισι.
>
> \noindent 1 5 10 50 100 \\
> \atticnumeral{1 5 10 50 100}
> \end{greek}
>
> \bigskip
> \begin{latin}
> 1. quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quam diu etiam
> furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit
>
> <a bunch more of Cicero>
>
> \end{latin}
>
> \end  {document}
>
>


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