Dear XeTeX list, I am dealing with a collection of texts in Sanskrit, for which the builtin limitation of TeX to not perform hyphenation after the 63rd character of a string is imposing a serious limitation, as such strings do occur. One reason for this is that one can freely form very long compounds, another one is sandhi, in which due to euphonic changes ending and beginning vowels fuse, another one that in Indic scripts if one word ends in a consonant and the next one starts with a vowel they are written together, another reason can be that scribes simply do not use spaces consistently. Thus in the collection of texts that I'm working on, currently comprising of 37 files, strings of more than 63 characters occur 1823 times.
Is this limitation of 63 characters just an odd remnant of the time TeX was written in, then necessary because of hardware limitations, or does it still make sense? Is there a reasonable way to remove it, or set it significantly higher? Regards Peter -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
