Hi Tobias,
Polyglossia works fine for german! I believed you missed a error message.
You have to change one line, you need:
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
regards
Keith.
Am 28.10.2011 um 16:53 schrieb Tobias Schoel:
> As a simple user (very simple: none of my work gets published, I just use TeX
> for myself): What do I have to think about, when moving from XeLaTeX to
> LuaLaTeX?
>
> I took a random document I created last week and tried to compile it with
> lualatex instead of xelatex. It threw an error because of polyglossia. OK, I
> commented out polyglossia. It compiled without error but hyphenation was
> broken (the text was German). I added \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} [would be
> great error in xetex as I read often on this list] and the document compiled
> without errors and with good hyphenation.
>
> So was it luck or should this be standard?
>
> bye
>
> Toscho
>
> Am 28.10.2011 16:33, schrieb Vafa Khalighi:
>> As an example, the attached PDF is just a portion of a maths textbook
>> with the title "Theory of Ordinary Differential Equation and Dynamic
>> Systems" which has been typeset using XePersian and it is published
>> just today in Iran.
>>
>> http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1440752
>>
>>
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