Hi Thomas,
Just put the hyphenation defintions after \begin{document}, then everything
should work as expected.
Yours, Tilman
---
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{german}
\begin{document}
\hyphenation{
einer
Me-ta-ethik
}
\showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
\end{document}
---
Am 13.07.2011 um 17:38 schrieb Thomas Fehige:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to typeset a book with XeLaTeX. The main language is German, there
> will be other assorted Western languages like French, British English,
> Italian and Latin in small doses. I'm trying to enter hyphenation exeptions
> for German. The \hyphenation{...} command I used to use with pdfeLaTeX and
> the babel package seems not to work. What am I missing? Below is a minimal
> program that shows what I'm talking about. Oh yes, in case this is relevant:
> I'm using the TeX Live 2010 distribution on a Windows computer.
>
> Thank you for your time -- Thomas
>
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{german}
>
> \hyphenation{
> einer
> Me-ta-ethik
> }
>
> \begin{document}
> \showhyphens{Metaethik, einer}
> % that gives me "Me-tae-thik" and "ei-ner",
> % the former wrong, the latter ugly.
> \end{document}
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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