I am not sure, maybe the value of \doublehyphendemerits discourages to
hyphenate these long words. However, what I know for sure is that the
very first word of a paragraph can never be hyphenated. If you start a
paragraph with a long word, you have to precede it by \hspace{0pt} in
order to allow hyphenation.2012/4/24 Neal Delmonico <[email protected]>: > Greetings All, > > I have been having trouble getting hyphenation to work for a specific > passage of Sanskrit in Devanagari. It seems to work well with every other > passage I have been working on, but not this one. It is ripe with long > compounds and such and the hyphenation program can't seem to break it up > very well, though sometimes it can. It is the opening piece of Ramanuja's > commentary on the Bhagavad-gita: > > Here is my preamble: > > \documentclass[10pt,titlepage,twoside]{book} > \usepackage{xltxtra} > \usepackage{polyglossia} > \setmainfont{Charis SIL} > \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari,Mapping=RomDev]{Sanskrit2003} > \newcommand{\skt}[1]{{\begin{sanskrit} #1\end{sanskrit}}} > \newcommand\skttranslit[1]{\begin{sanskrit}\fontspec{Charis > SIL}#1\end{sanskrit}} > > I have attached two files: the source file and the resulting pdf. > > Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here and what I can do to fix it? > > Thanks. > > Best wishes, > > Neal > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
