[XeTeX] Hyphenation exceptions for German -- how?

[Tilman Hannemann]

Hi Thomas,

Just put the hyphenation defintions after \begin{document}, then everything should work as expected.

Yours, Tilman

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{german}


\begin{document}
\hyphenation{
	einer
	Me-ta-ethik
}
	\showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
\end{document}

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Am 13.07.2011 um 17:38 schrieb Thomas Fehige:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to typeset a book with XeLaTeX. The main language is German, there will be other assorted Western languages like French, British English, Italian and Latin in small doses. I'm trying to enter hyphenation exeptions for German. The \hyphenation{...} command I used to use with pdfeLaTeX and the babel package seems not to work. What am I missing? Below is a minimal program that shows what I'm talking about. Oh yes, in case this is relevant: I'm using the TeX Live 2010 distribution on a Windows computer.
> 
> Thank you for your time -- Thomas
> 
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{german}
> 
> \hyphenation{
> 	einer
> 	Me-ta-ethik
> }
> 
> \begin{document}
> 	\showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
> 	% that gives me "Me-tae-thik" and "ei-ner",
> 	% the former wrong, the latter ugly.
> \end{document}
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
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