Jonathan Kew wrote:
> So IIRC, the alternative version works by setting the word into a > zero-width \vbox, and then extracting the resulting word fragments from > the list of (all overfull) lines in the paragraph and assembling them > into a line for display. Of course this could all be written from > scratch using tex primitives, but at the time it seemed easier to make > use of some higher-level tools. OK, I like low-level TeX coding; I will attempt to replicate its functionality for Plain XeTeX users when I have a moment or two ... >> And why does Jonathan's example >> use the reformed orthopgraphy patterns when we are trying >> to hyphenate words with eszet ? > > It doesn't matter; I was just aiming to show that ß does not prevent > xetex correctly finding a hyphenation point that's specified by the > patterns in use. I followed that up in a later message, as "wußte" does not appear in my 1999 reformed orthography unabridged German dictionary. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
