On 4 Jan 2011, at 13:19, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2011, at 12:44, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
>> Minimal example, run with xelatex and TeXlive 2010:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{polyglossia}
>> \begin{document}
>> \showhyphens{helicopter}
>> \end{document}
>>
>>
>> Why does my log file show
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 4--4
>> [] \EU1/lmr/m/n/10 helicopter
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 4--4
>> [] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 he-li-copter
>>
>
> Because the default LaTeX \showhyphens doesn't work with "native" fonts (i.e.
> those loaded without TFMs, etc) in xetex, and polyglossia loads fontspec
> which sets the default font to LM loaded as a "native" unicode font.
>
> If you try actually using "helicopter" in text, you'll find that it still
> hyphenates fine.
>
> To fix \showhyphens, try loading the xltxtra package.
>
> (There's discussion of this somewhere in the list archives, IIRC.)
That would be the *xetex* list archives, not this list - sorry, I wasn't paying
sufficient attention to which list I was reading at the time!
JK
