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Hyphenation of words connected with a double/triple dash
I can't hyphenate the words
Cam•bri•an--Or•do•vi•cian
because they are connected with an endash. The same probably happens when using the emdash.
I tried this
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babel's hyphenation-friendly hyphen "= in multiple languages
Why doesn't the hyphenation work with multiple languages? See code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
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Using breakable hyphen "= in \newcommand
I want to use a breakable hyphen "= in a command:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\newcommand{\TT}{Test"=Text }
\begin{document}
This is a test whether the hyphen in \TT ...
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votes
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Automatic hyphenation of compound words
When I was learning to drive a typewriter (shortly after the death of my pet sabre-tooth), I picked up the habit of using a double hyphen when splitting compound words, thus:
The system has a ...
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babel: Adding ngerman' s language shorthands to english as the main document language
The (n)german language option of the babel package provides various shorthands related to hyphenation, e.g. "-: "an explicit hyphen sign, allowing hyphenation in the
rest of the word" (manual, section ...
