Installing a hyphenation file with rules for monotone greek and english for xelatex and activating a new language monogreeken in miktex 2.7 for windows vista. $miktex_dir is "c:\program files\miktex 2.7" make a copy of file $miktex_dir\tex\generic\hyph-utf8\loadhyph\loadhyph-el-monoton.tex to $miktex_dir\tex\generic\hyph-utf8\loadhyph\loadhyph-elen.tex Change the comments, if you want, then change the first message line to: \message{Combined UTF-8 hyphenation for monotonic Greek and English} and then add the following line above "\input hyph-el-monoton.tex": \input hyphen.tex Go to start menu, all programs, miktex 2.7, settings. In the "Languages" tab, create a new language "monogreeken" with hyphenation file "loadhyph-elen.tex". Push "Apply". In the "General" tab, push "refresh FNDB". In the "Formats" tab, choose "xelatex" and push "Build". Now, you can use \setlanguage{monogreeken} in your tex files. This language changes only the hyphenation rules.