Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

Oh, thank you!
I have updated my documentation and read XeTeX-notes and CJKsample. It 
works very well.

I hope I haven't missed this too, but I can't see an option to typeset 
chinese in the traditional vertical, right to left way. Is this 
possible too?


Pavel Stranak


On 16.10.2005, at 10:50, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 16 Oct 2005, at 8:55 am, Pavel Stra?ák wrote:
>
> > Hello Jonathan,
> >
> > I might have missed something, but I believe there still is a problem 
> > with CJK line wrapping. Your hack from February 23 works, but you 
> > can't expect regular LaTeX users to figure this out. I can't even 
> > understand how it works.
>
> Ah, I think you did miss something - version 0.91 added a new feature 
> to enable line-breaking based on Unicode character properties, 
> tailored for a given locale (as there's no "universal" set of rules).
>
> You can enable this by adding a couple of declarations at the start of 
> a document, e.g.:
>
>     \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "zh" % allow inter-character linebreaks 
> according to Chinese locale
>     \XeTeXlinebreakskip = 0pt plus 1pt % allow some stretch at such 
> places, for justification
>
> This is not turned on by default, as it will affect TeX's behavior (in 
> minor and usually benign ways, it's true, but it would appear buggy to 
> an unsuspecting TeX user).
>
> JK
>
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