[XeTeX] preventing hyphenation
Ulrike Fischer
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Sat Feb 19 18:13:53 CET 2011
Am Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:13:03 -0500 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
> In a grammar we're writing, the gloss of a word "xowunʣāy" gets
> hyphenated immediately after the 'x'. I thought I could prevent this by
> adding the command
> \hyphenation{xowunʣāy}
> near the beginning of the file (before the \begin{document} command).
> However, this has no effect; the word still gets hyphenated.
>
> The paragraph of text in the input is
> Applies to nouns (including verbal nouns) and
> adjectives. \pusArabicScript{ښوون(ه)} /xowun(a)/ \emph{teaching};
> \pusArabicScript{ښوونځای} /xowunʣāy/ \emph{schoolhouse}.
> where \pusArabicScript is our command to switch into Arabic script.
>
> Any idea why the \hyphenation{} command is ineffective?
Did you activate the correct language?
--
Ulrike Fischer
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