Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
I think that Jonathan has different kind of mapping in mind. First macros are expanded (active characters will be expanded at the very same time). And expandable primitives (such as \if) will also be expanded at this time. Philip Taylor -- S

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/2/24 Ulrike Fischer : > Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:25:37 + schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > >> I agree with that, that's the most sensible behaviour. What Ulrike >> needs are hyphenation patterns suited to the particular transliteration >> scheme she's using. > > I "need" nothing ;-). I even can

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:25:37 + schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > I agree with that, that’s the most sensible behaviour. What Ulrike > needs are hyphenation patterns suited to the particular transliteration > scheme she’s using. I "need" nothing ;-). I even can't read russian (and I hope the text

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/2/24 Arthur Reutenauer : >> It should be so. > >  I agree with that, that’s the most sensible behaviour.  What Ulrike > needs are hyphenation patterns suited to the particular transliteration > scheme she’s using.  Depending on the transliteration, the patterns for > other Slavonic languages c

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> It should be so. I agree with that, that’s the most sensible behaviour. What Ulrike needs are hyphenation patterns suited to the particular transliteration scheme she’s using. Depending on the transliteration, the patterns for other Slavonic languages could be useful; for ISO 9, I expect tha

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:22:15PM +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:40:53 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > > >> From an old discussion on the mailing list > >> (http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2005-November/002842.html) I got > >> the impression that mappings are "invisible"

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/2/24 Ulrike Fischer : > Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:40:53 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > >>> From an old discussion on the mailing list >>> (http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2005-November/002842.html) I got >>> the impression that mappings are "invisible" to the hyphenation >>> routine and so I w

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:40:53 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: >> From an old discussion on the mailing list >> (http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2005-November/002842.html) I got >> the impression that mappings are "invisible" to the hyphenation >> routine and so I would have expected the translitter

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/2/24 Arthur Reutenauer : >  I don’t know the technical answer to that question, but considering > what you say: > >>                I would have expected the translittered text to be >> hyphenated according the original russian rules but actually it is >> not hyphenated at all: > >  That hints

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I don’t know the technical answer to that question, but considering what you say: >I would have expected the translittered text to be > hyphenated according the original russian rules but actually it is > not hyphenated at all: That hints that the text is hyphenated after tran

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/2/24 Ulrike Fischer : > > In tex.stackexchange there is currently a discussion about the > hyphenation of text "translittered" with the help of a mapping file. > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45570/using-xetex-for-automatic-transliteration-of-cyrillic-letters > > >From an old discussi

[XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
In tex.stackexchange there is currently a discussion about the hyphenation of text "translittered" with the help of a mapping file. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45570/using-xetex-for-automatic-transliteration-of-cyrillic-letters >From an old discussion on the mailing list (http://tug.or