On 6 May 2011, at 18:03, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:42, Adam McCollum wrote: >> Dear list members, >> I've recently drawn up a short document in Ge`ez (classical Ethiopic) using >> Polyglossia and I see that the hyphenation is wrong. As some of you know, >> languages that use the Ethiopic script, including Ge`ez and Amharic, place a >> word divider—it looks somewhat like a thick colon—between each word and two >> of these dividers side by side between sentences; see some Amharic examples >> here. That being the case, a word may be broken at any syllable (the script >> is a syllabary, not an alphabet) at the end of a line, but there is nothing >> corresponding to a hyphen. An additional matter of importance is that no >> line should begin with the single or double word divider. How should this be >> fixed? > > Dear Adam, > > We have submitted Ethiopic hyphenation patterns to CTAN (and TL) a > while ago, so once you update you TeX Live, it should work out of the > box. > ......
For line-breaking after the word separators, doesn't it work to just set \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "en" \XeTeXlinebreakskip 0pt plus 1pt or similar? JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex