On 11/13/2014 12:27 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:
Jonathan Kew wrote:
This isn't really a Greek issue, it's more general. For an English
analogy, compare the results (in Plain TeX) of
\showhyphens{colorful}
% yields "col-or-ful"
\showhyphens{colourful}
% yields "colour-ful"; the en-US patterns don't do "col-our"
\showhyphens{colo[u]rful}
% doesn't find any hyphens; in particular, NOT "colo[u]r-ful"
\lccode`[=`[ \lccode`]=`]
\showhyphens{colo[u]rful}
% yields "colo[u]r-ful", but other side-effects are a real risk,
% so I can't recommend this as a general solution
I'm sure LuaTeX could be programmed to deal with this somehow.... :)
In a parallel universe, undoubtedly !
Indeed, in context ... not too hard to hook that feature into existing
mechanism (i might even do it when I'm in the mood) ... not that
different from across-font hyphenation.
Hans
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