TeX doesn't hyphenate the first word of a paragraph. It's to do with the rules
about finding candidate letter sequences; IIRC, it might be the \hbox for the
paragraph indent that's preventing it. The TeXbook explains it all fully, but
I'm away from my copy just now.
You can probably "fix" this, if desired, by inserting \allowhyphens before the
first word, where \allowhyphens is defined as
\def\allowhyphens{\nobreak \hskip 0pt \relax}
so that the first word is preceded by some (zero-width) glue. Or even use
\everypar to insert this (how to make that play nicely with LaTeX packages that
also want to use \everypar is left as an exercise.....)
JK
On 16 Dec 2010, at 05:52, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> I've just realized that this behaviour doesn't depend on polyglossia or
> xelatex. I still find it puzzling.
>
> D
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> On 16 December 2010 14:50, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
