On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Simon Spiegel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand that luatex has a completely new hyphenation system so that
> pdflatex and lualatex documents will not be hyphenated the same way. That
> wouldn't be a problem for me, but in my tests, lualatex's hyphenation is
> significantly worse than what I'm normally used to with latex. The problem
> I'm seeing is that long words are not hyphenated at all and stick out at the
> end of the line. With pdflatex this only happens rarely, with lualatex I see
> it at least a dozen times in a ca. 150 pages document.
>
> I'm using the latest german patterns with this sequence:
>
> \usepackage{hyphsubst}
> \HyphSubstLet{ngerman}{ngerman-x-latest}
> \usepackage[USenglish, ngerman]{babel}
>
> The exact same text is hyphenated much worse with lualatex which is strange
> since the patterns should be the same.
>
> Any ideas?
Basically, hyphenation for anything outside ASCII was not active, this
should be solve with next TeXLive update (within few days, I think).
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
