On 1/9/2022 11:23 AM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote:
1. In Sanskrit prose it is possible to produce compounds that span a few
lines. The concept of
"word" or "word division" fails here, as are the TeX mechanisms.
What we need in practice would be a "hyphenation" for the language
Sanskrit that hyphenates
after all Sanskrit vowels (in transcription this would be a, ā, i,
ī, u, ū, ṛ, ḷ, e, o, ai, au. The
last two cannot be split, "au" is one vowel with one vowel sign in
the original script). Of
course, we want to improve this automatic spelling occasionally, so
we need to be able to insert
a \- without thereby disabling the hyphenation for this compound.
I think in critical editions the problem of the disabled hyphenation
also arises when a variant
is added inside a word. In any case hyphenation is a real nuisance
in critical editions.
I can add sanskit patterns to the distribution but I wonder: how does
this interact with reordering in fonts? Do we need to postpone
hyphenation till after reordering?
Hans
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