[XeTeX] Difficulty with hypenation in Sanskrit with Devanagari

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/4/30 Neal Delmonico <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net>:
> Greetings Aku,
>
> Sure.  No problem.  I'm glad to help if I can.  Attached is the header file
> I use for that file.  The header is for a purely Sanskrit (i.e., no other
> language) book with a size of 5 x 8.  If you have any questions or
> suggestions, please don't hesitate.
>
Just a note, Mapping=RomDev in the font definition means that the text
is entered in a Roman transliteration and will be converted to
Devanagari on the fly. If the text is entered directly in Devanagari,
this option is not needed.

> Best wishes,
>
> Neal
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:33:07 -0500, A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Neal,
>> I am working of Bellamkonda Ramarayakavi's Gita-Bhashya, if you do not
>> mind
>> can you share the header file required to process your attached tex file.
>> I am using xetex and directly typing in Devanagari, instead of using roman
>> letters. I am new to tex so want to learn how to do the way you are doing.
>> I would really appreciate your help
>> Aku
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Neal Delmonico
>> <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for all your replies and suggestions.  I decided that there was no
>>> easy solution.  It must be the fact that some of the compound words have
>>> more than 64 characters that is causing the hyphenation to fail.  I
>>> decided
>>> to hyphenate it manually and came up with something passable.  I hope I
>>> don't run into too many more passages like this.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Neal
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:48:19 -0500, Zdenek Wagner
>>> <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  2012/4/25 Mojca Miklavec
>>> <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.**com<mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> >:
>>>>
>>>>> 2012/4/24 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> However, what I know for sure is that the
>>>>>> very first word of a paragraph can never be hyphenated. If you start a
>>>>>> paragraph with a long word, you have to precede it by \hspace{0pt} in
>>>>>> order to allow hyphenation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also words with 64 characters or more have problems and this might
>>>>> well be the problem in your case. (LuaTeX has a longer limit, but also
>>>>> not an infinite one.)
>>>>>
>>>>>  However, LuaTeX does not yet support Devanagari :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Mojca
>>>>>
>>>>>
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