Well, after all these years, there's still something to learn about TeX :-)
I've learned the hard way to stay well away from \everypar when using LaTeX! Thanks, Jonathan, Dominik On 16 December 2010 15:35, Jonathan Kew <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > On 16 December 2010 14:50, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >
