On 11 May 2011, at 18:02, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> And another nasty issue (that might deserve its own thread). We wanted >> to have no hyphenchar at all, but using \hyphenchar\font=0 has a nasty >> consequence that lines with broken words are not properly justified >> (some extra space is squeezed between the last character in line and >> the non-existent hyphen char). > > Actually, what we've observed is that XeTeX seems to produce a glyph > in the output even if we set \hyphenchar to a character for which there > is no glyph in the current font.
That doesn't surprise me; I'd expect you to get the font's .notdef glyph (which might be a blank space, as in this example, or a box, or some other symbol). What you want is a character that has a zero-width, invisible glyph; if the font supports any of the Unicode characters such as ZWNBSP or ZWNJ or WJ or CGJ, etc., that ought to work. Or character 13 (CR) is a likely bet, too. JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
