The title says it all... how?
There are a lot of compound Russian words that have a hyphen and they need to be hyphenated just like any other word.
Polyglossia can do this for German with "- and "= and whatnot, but nothing like that for Russian.
A command to insert a non-hyphenation-suppressing-hyphen would be nice, a command to enable hyphenation in all such words by default would be super helpful.
Babel shorthands work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{russian}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Old Standard}
\begin{document}
\parbox{3pt}{
\hspace{0pt}штаб"-квартиры
\bigskip
\hspace{0pt}Восточно"-Европейской
}
\end{document}
The \hspace{0pt} is used to overcome the usual problem that the first word in a paragraph would not be hyphenated. The \parbox is to force XeLaTeX to hyphenate whenever possible.
babelshorthands incorrectly (option is not the same as option=true, silly me). However "- doesn't seem to work as intended. It produces no hyphen when word fits on the line (ВосточноЕвропейской). -"" seems to do the right things however.
Commented
Jun 1, 2013 at 18:54
"- until last year, which would cause the behaviour you’re observing. It’s fixed in TeX Live 2012 (with Polyglossia version 1.2.1).
Commented
Jun 5, 2013 at 15:25
"= rather than "-.
Commented
Jun 30, 2013 at 11:34
\setdefaultlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{russian}not give you access to"=etc.?babelinstead ofpolyglossia. The most recent version ofbabelprovides "= and works with all engines including xetex and luatex.[babelshorthands=true]{german}does work, just like the manual says, but{russian}does not.babelcan do it, but I have other problems with it.