[XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

[Peter Mukunda Pasedach]

This seems to work, at least for my test file. I tried on one of my
much more complex real files, including reledmac etc., and there your
quick hack for first word of paragraph didn't work yet, but if I
manually add the \hskip 0pt \relax at the beginning of a paragraph
then it works there, too. For that I should be able to find a
workaround. Great. I'll do some checking of my real files the next
days. Thanks for this!

Peter

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/3/16 20:30, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
>>
>> That would be fmtutil --all? Yes I ran that. Maybe something wrong
>> with my test file?
>
>
> Yes, in a sense... you're running into another quirk of TeX: it doesn't
> attempt to hyphenate the first word of a paragraph. And in your file, every
> word is the first word of a paragraph!
>
> A quick hack to work around this, and demonstrate that it is indeed the
> problem, would be to add something like
>
>   \everypar={\hskip 0pt \relax}
>
> after your \begin{document}. This will allow those paragraph-initial words
> to be hyphenated.
>
> JK
>
>
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \usepackage{polyglossia}
>> \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
>> \newfontfamily{\sanskritfont}{Latin Modern Roman}
>> \XeTeXhyphenatablelength=1023
>> \begin{document}
>> tribhuvanacūḍāmaṇībhūtasaparikaraheyopādeyatattvajñapuruṣapuṇḍarīka
>>
>> apramāṇakajaḍavaidikaśabdarāśipramukhasakaladurmatipravādapratihatir
>>
>> janmāntaraparivartopāttātītānāgataskandhakadambakopādānopādeyātmāna
>>
>> śiśirabharasambhṛtajaḍimamantharatarakāyakāṇḍasyānumitavahnibhāvanābhiyoga
>>
>> asmadādiviśeṣaṇaśūnyasyārthasākṣātkāritvamātrasyaivendriyādhīnatva
>>
>>
>> asaddṛṣṭilakṣaṇāvidyāparipanthikṣaṇikanairātmyalakṣaṇasarvavastutattvabhāvanāsahitam
>>
>> kāryatvasyopādānopakaraṇasaṃpradānaprayojanajñakartṛmātravyāptatve
>>
>>
>> prītiparamāṇumūrtyādhāraparatvāparatvānumeyasāmānyasamavāyāntyaviśeṣatadekārthasamavetaparimāṇaikatvapṛthaktvagurutvasnehāpārthivarūparasasparśāpyadravatvāmūrtasaṃyogataditaretarābhāvānutpattirūpārūpam
>>
>> vijñānādhārādhīnavacchinnātmobhayavādyavivādāspadapuruṣapūrvakavyatireki
>>
>> viśiṣṭānvayavyatirekagrahaṇapravaṇaviśiṣṭapratyakṣānupalambhābhyāṃ
>>
>> viśiṣṭānvayavyatirekagrahaṇapravaṇaviśiṣṭapratyakṣānupalambhābhyāṃ
>>
>> ekatvavibhutvasarvajñatvanityatvādiguṇaviśiṣṭabuddhimatpūrvakatvam
>>
>> viśiṣṭānvayavyatirekagrahaṇapravaṇaviśiṣṭapratyakṣānupalambhasādhaneti
>>
>>
>> ghaṭaniścayapūrvakamudgarakṛtakapālānubhavamātrānvayavyatirekānuvidhānadarśanāt
>>
>> gauragāndhāramadhurasurabhisukumārasātetarādivicitrākārakadambakam
>> \end{document}
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
>>>
>>>> I finally managed to build it in such a way that it identifies itself
>>>> with the right version number, I had to do a new clone of the sources
>>>> for that, didn't find out how to clean them up. Now how do I set the
>>>> parameter, as \XeTeXhyphenatablelength=1023 somewhere in my preamble
>>>> or as a command line option to xelatex? The former I'm afraid doesn't
>>>> work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Could it be that in this line from Jonathan lies a clue ?
>>>
>>>>> Note that xetex.fmt (and any other .fmt files) will need to be rebuilt
>>>>> with
>>>>> the new version.
>>>
>>>
>>> Philip Taylor
>>>
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