[XeTeX] preventing hyphenation

[Mike Maxwell]

On 2/19/2011 12:13 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:13:03 -0500 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
>> In a grammar we're writing, the gloss of a word "xowunʣāy" gets

just a comment, in the line above I meant "roman transcription", not 
"gloss."

>> hyphenated immediately after the 'x'.  I thought I could prevent this by
>> adding the command
>>      \hyphenation{xowunʣāy}
>> near the beginning of the file (before the \begin{document} command).
>> However, this has no effect; the word still gets hyphenated.
>>
>> The paragraph of text in the input is
>>      Applies to nouns (including verbal nouns) and
>>      adjectives. \pusArabicScript{ښوون(ه)} /xowun(a)/  \emph{teaching};
>>      \pusArabicScript{ښوونځای} /xowunʣāy/  \emph{schoolhouse}.
>> where \pusArabicScript is our command to switch into Arabic script.
>>
>> Any idea why the \hyphenation{} command is ineffective?
>
> Did you activate the correct language?

Not sure what you mean here.  The default language of the grammar is 
English; we have not tagged /xowunʣāy/ as belonging to any language, so 
I'm assuming XeTeX thinks it's a funny-looking English word.
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