[XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

[Philip Taylor]

Working fine here, Akira-san, in conjunction with TeX Live 2014 using a
slightly modified version of the Plain e-TeX test source suggested to
Peter Mukunda Pasedach yesterday :

> \uselanguage {sanskrit}
> 
> \font \mainfont = "Latin Modern Roman"
> \mainfont
> \XeTeXhyphenatablelength = 1023
> \raggedright
> \parindent = 0 pt
> \parskip = 1 ex
> 
> x kāryatvasyopādānopakaraṇasaṃpradānaprayojanajñakartṛmātravyāptatve
> 
> x prītiparamāṇumūrtyādhāraparatvāparatvānumeyasāmānyasamavāyāntyaviśeṣatadekārthasamavetaparimāṇaikatvapṛthaktvagurutvasnehāpārthivarūparasasparśāpyadravatvāmūrtasaṃyogataditaretarābhāvānutpattirūpārūpam
> 
> x vijñānādhārādhīnavacchinnātmobhayavādyavivādāspadapuruṣapūrvakavyatireki
> 
> \end

Would you be able/willing to describe to me at some point what is
necessary in order to (be able to) compile XeTeX for Windows ?

Philip Taylor
--------
Akira Kakuto wrote:

>> I have just pushed a new experimental branch named "max-hyph-len" to
>> the xetex repository. The changes here implement a new integer parameter
>>
>>    \XeTeXhyphenatablelength
> 
> Users of windows can test xetex-0.99996 by obtaining a
> 32bit binary:
> http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/wt1357ak/xetex-99996-w32.zip
> 
> It may run on TeX Live 2015.
> I'll remove the file in due time.
> 
> Best,
> Akira
> 
> 
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