On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:22:15PM +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:40:53 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > > >> From an old discussion on the mailing list > >> (http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2005-November/002842.html) I got > >> the impression that mappings are "invisible" to the hyphenation > >> routine and so I would have expected the translittered text to be > >> hyphenated according the original russian rules but actually it is > >> not hyphenated at all: > > > Do the Russian hyphenation patterns contain patterns for the Latin > > script? > > Well I would say, obviously not. > > But my question is if "...font mappings (unlike traditional > TFM-based ligatures) are completely invisible to TeX's line-breaking > process"
I understand this as that the line-breaking process sees the result of the mapping with no reference to its origin, so a “b” input by the user and a “b” resulting from a mapping are both identical. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
