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EDIT 2019/05/07:

In LuaTeX 1.10.0 included in TeX Live 2019 compound word hyphenation works as expected.

As stated in this answer from 2014 and this one from 2016, LuaTeX should allow arbitrary hyphenation points for compound words already separated by hyphens through:

\hyphenation{short=tem-pered}

I'm using LuaTeX version 1.07.0 included in TeX Live 2018 and this command isn't working (though it seemed to work in earlier LuaTeX versions).

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{showhyphens}

\setmainlanguage{spanish}
\setotherlanguage{english}

\begin{document}

\hyphenation{cos-te=be-ne-fi-cio s-ib-a-rit-a}
%                  ^
%                  Should allow hyphenation for contiguous words

\textenglish{Equal sign hyphenation is not working:}

\parbox{0pt}{Coste-beneficio}

\parbox{0pt}{Coste}

\parbox{0pt}{Beneficio}

\textenglish{Silly example of (wrong) manual hyphenation, which works:}

\parbox{0pt}{Sibarita}

\end{document}

This question from early 2018 is the only reference I found about this issue.

Are there any updates on this? LuaTeX 1.08 got released about a month ago, how can I check if this has been reported or fixed? Thanks!

undostres
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  • It works with with luatex 1.09, Development id: 6930 and luaotfload 2.9. – Ulrike Fischer Sep 26 '18 at 07:28
  • @UlrikeFischer Good! Will not stumble upon this issue in the future. Thank you. Is there a way to try out a recent version of LuaTeX for a TeX Live 2018 installation (through install-tl-unx.tar.gz) in a GNU/Linux system? – undostres Sep 28 '18 at 00:33
  • @undostres If you are using a x86-64 system, you can use my LuaTeX development repo for TeX Live. Instructions are on the GitHub page: https://github.com/hmenke/texlive-luatex-dev – Henri Menke Dec 24 '18 at 08:16

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