For those who want a complete working example based on Yiannis' code, here is
one, to be compiled with "xetex -ini -etex test.tex" and in which the arabic
"word" is hyphenated at every letter.
Thank you Yannis and others.
Bruno
On 3/25/21 6:50 PM, Yannis Haralambous wrote:
> Silly of me, when adding the \lccode information also in the TeX file… it
> works.
> And not only once
> in a word, but for all hyphenation points. I was persuaded having done so, but
> apparently I didn't. Anyway,
> now everything suddenly seems to work. Totally weird…
>
\let\dump\relax
\input xelatex.ini
\begingroup
\language=8 % how to do this better?
\catcode"200D=11
\lccode"200D="200D
\patterns{
^^^^06431^^^^0643
^^^^200d1^^^^200d
}
\endgroup
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia,fontspec}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily{\arabicfont}[Script=Arabic,Extension=.ttf,Scale=1.2]{Amiri-Regular}
\textwidth1mm
\begin{document}
\catcode"200D=11 %JOINER
\lccode"200D="200D
\lefthyphenmin1
\righthyphenmin1
\makeatletter\language8
\arabicfont
^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643
^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643^^^^200d^^^^200d^^^^0643
^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643
^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643^^^^0643
blabla
blabla
bla^^^^200d^^^^200dbla
bla^^^^200d^^^^200dbla
\end{document}
