When I run the same file with Amiri: % !TeX Program=Ini-XeTeX
\catcode `\ = 10 \catcode `\ = 10 \catcode `\{ = 1 \catcode `\} = 2 \catcode `\^ = 7 \font\tenrm="Amiri-Regular.ttf" \tenrm \lccode "200D = "200D \patterns {^^^^200d1^^^^200d} \def \showhyphens { \setbox 0 = \vbox { \parfillskip = 0 pt \hsize = \dimen 10 \tenrm \pretolerance = -1 \tolerance = -1 \hbadness = 0 \showboxdepth = 0 \ #1 } } \lccode "200D = "200D \catcode "200D = 11 bla^^^^200d^^^^200dbla \showhyphens {bla^^^^200d^^^^200dbla} \end I get three pages, one with blabla, one with bla and a box, and another with bla. Maybe \showhyphens is not correctly defined in the code above? > Le 25 mars 2021 à 11:20, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk> a > écrit : > > Philip Taylor wrote: > >> And I see no significant font using Amiri — > > "no significant difference ...". <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/> Yannis HARALAMBOUS Professor Computer Science Department UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC <http://perso.telecom-bretagne.eu/yannisharalambous/> <https://twitter.com/y_haralambous> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-haralambous-5529073?trk=hp-identity-name>Technopôle Brest-Iroise CS 83818 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Une école de l'IMT <http://www.imt.fr/> Und nach einer kleinen Stille fügte Sie hinzu: Jeder Weg, der dorthin führt, war am Ende der richtige. (Michael Ende)