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 compou
On 15/3/16 14:24, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
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
Dear Jonathan,
yes, recompiling xetex is fine!
At 255 characters I still have 32 occurences left, at 500 two, and at
1000 zero. Thanks for looking into this!
Peter
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 15/3/16 14:24, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
>>
>> Dear XeTeX list,
>>
>
r wraparound in the arithmetic.
FWIW,
Doug McKenna
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From: "Peter Mukunda Pasedach"
To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion."
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 9:13:08 AM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters
Dear
On 15/3/16 18:04, Doug McKenna wrote:
There could be some subtle problems that simply changing the character count
constant causes.
In particular, the allocation size of a "whatsit" language node might also need changing,
which would require adjusting other code in the core engine that assumes
2016-03-16 0:06 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Kew :
> On 15/3/16 18:04, Doug McKenna wrote:
>
>> There could be some subtle problems that simply changing the character
>> count constant causes.
>>
>> In particular, the allocation size of a "whatsit" language node might
>> also need changing, which would requ
Jonathan Kew wrote:
> I'll try to get an experimental patch ready shortly. Or, of course,
> someone else is welcome to try. I don't think it's very hard, but it is
> more than just a single number.
I have never attempted to modify *TeX since it ceased to be compiled as
Pascal (a language which
I eventually managed to build xetex (on Ubuntu 14.04, with a TeX Live
2015 installation kept up to date) by cloning the xetex sources from
sourceforge, then modified, as an experiment, xetex.web, replacing 63
by 1023 in the places that seemed relevant, only guessing which ones
they were, noticed th
On 18/3/16 08:43, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
I eventually managed to build xetex (on Ubuntu 14.04, with a TeX Live
2015 installation kept up to date) by cloning the xetex sources from
sourceforge, then modified, as an experiment, xetex.web, replacing 63
by 1023 in the places that seemed releva
Peter,
I have just pushed a new experimental branch named "max-hyph-len" to the
xetex repository. The changes here implement a new integer parameter
\XeTeXhyphenatablelength
which defaults to 63 (to maintain existing behavior), but can be
increased to allow longer words to be hyphenated. (
Any news on this? If it's just one constant whose value I would have
to increase in my private copy of the code, before recompling, for
testing purposes, which one would that be?
Peter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2016-03-16 0:06 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Kew :
>>
>> On 15/3
I finally managed to build it in such a way that it identifies itself
with the right version number, I had to do a new clone of the sources
for that, didn't find out how to clean them up. Now how do I set the
parameter, as \XeTeXhyphenatablelength=1023 somewhere in my preamble
or as a command line
Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
> I finally managed to build it in such a way that it identifies itself
> with the right version number, I had to do a new clone of the sources
> for that, didn't find out how to clean them up. Now how do I set the
> parameter, as \XeTeXhyphenatablelength=1023 somew
That would be fmtutil --all? Yes I ran that. Maybe something wrong
with my test file?
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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
\newfontfamily{\sanskritfont}{Latin Modern Roman}
\XeTeXhyphenatablelength=1023
\begin{docume
Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
> That would be fmtutil --all? Yes I ran that. Maybe something wrong
> with my test file?
Ah, there I can't help, I am afraid; it is written in LaTeX, a language
with which I have near-zero familiarity. Is it possible for you to test
in a plain e-TeX environment,
On 19/3/16 20:30, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
That would be fmtutil --all? Yes I ran that. Maybe something wrong
with my test file?
Yes, in a sense... you're running into another quirk of TeX: it doesn't
attempt to hyphenate the first word of a paragraph. And in your file,
every word is the
On 17/3/16 05:16, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
Any news on this? If it's just one constant whose value I would have
to increase in my private copy of the code, before recompling, for
testing purposes, which one would that be?
Unfortunately, it's not just a single constant; there are a number o
This seems to work, at least for my test file. I tried on one of my
much more complex real files, including reledmac etc., and there your
quick hack for first word of paragraph didn't work yet, but if I
manually add the \hskip 0pt \relax at the beginning of a paragraph
then it works there, too. For
Remember that LaTeX macros may redefine \everypar. For instance all
sectioning command (\section, \subsection etc.) are implemented via
\@startsection which ends with \@afterheading which uses \everypar to
change some penalties and indentation of the first paragraph. I am not sure
whether it is res
On 19/3/16 21:57, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
This seems to work, at least for my test file. I tried on one of my
much more complex real files, including reledmac etc., and there your
quick hack for first word of paragraph didn't work yet,
That doesn't surprise me; I'm sure LaTeX will be maki
I have just pushed a new experimental branch named "max-hyph-len" to the
xetex repository. The changes here implement a new integer parameter
\XeTeXhyphenatablelength
Users of windows can test xetex-0.6 by obtaining a
32bit binary:
http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/wt1357ak/xetex-6-w3
Working fine here, Akira-san, in conjunction with TeX Live 2014 using a
slightly modified version of the Plain e-TeX test source suggested to
Peter Mukunda Pasedach yesterday :
> \uselanguage {sanskrit}
>
> \font \mainfont = "Latin Modern Roman"
> \mainfont
> \XeTeXhyphenatablelength = 1023
> \ra
Might the everyhook package be useful here?
/bpj
Den 19 mar 2016 23:15 skrev "Jonathan Kew" :
> On 19/3/16 21:57, Peter Mukunda Pasedach wrote:
>
>> This seems to work, at least for my test file. I tried on one of my
>> much more complex real files, including reledmac etc., and there your
>> quic
On 19/3/16 23:08, Akira Kakuto wrote:
I have just pushed a new experimental branch named "max-hyph-len" to
the xetex repository. The changes here implement a new integer parameter
\XeTeXhyphenatablelength
Users of windows can test xetex-0.6 by obtaining a
32bit binary:
http://members2.j
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