On 1/9/2022 11:23 AM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote:
1. In Sanskrit prose it is possible to produce compounds that span a few lines. The concept of "word" or "word division" fails here, as are the TeX mechanisms.
What we need in practice would be a "hyphenation" for the language Sanskrit that hyphenates after all Sanskrit vowels (in transcription this would be a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ṛ, ḷ, e, o, ai, au. The last two cannot be split, "au" is one vowel with one vowel sign in the original script). Of course, we want to improve this automatic spelling occasionally, so we need to be able to insert a \- without thereby disabling the hyphenation for this compound.
I think in critical editions the problem of the disabled hyphenation also arises when a variant is added inside a word. In any case hyphenation is a real nuisance in critical editions. two things here:
transliterations ... do we need a mechanism for that ? latin in -> something else out (if so i need specs) hypenation ... so no patterns, just injecting discretionaries after specific vowels ... doable but it has to happen a some specific moment because when language bound it's too soon, and the font handler does some reshuffling; it can probabloy best be done after fonts have been done ... given specs a typical rainy weekend activity Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------