{hyphenation} is about controlling hyphenation in (La)TeX documents.
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Why can words with hyphen char not be hyphenated?
Assume I have a word like Baden-Württemberg. TeX can't hyphenate any of these two word parts. Why?
why isn't it something like this:
where the small ticks indicate possible hyphenation points. A ...
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Hyphenation on next-to-last line
On the next-to-last line of a paragraph, I have some hyphenation and on the last line, I only have the end of the word.
blablabla cou-
cou.
New paragraph
I thought the command \finalhyphendemerits ...
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How to create a section whose title looks different in the table of content?
I'm writing my thesis, and one of the sections has a title which looks good in the table of content, but it's too long in the main text, so that it goes on the new line by hyphenating one of the ...
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Change the font of \hyphenchar
I'm using Tex with Telugu and English languages. When a word is hyphenated, the hyphen symbol, as apparently is not found in Telugu font, appears as undefined symbol. I want to change it's font to ...
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Remove hyphen from word spanning two lines in text copied from a pdf file
If I copy text from a PDF and a word is hyphenated and spans two lines, the copied text contains the "-". For example:
Examp-
le
should be copied as
Example
not
Examp-le
The problem is ...
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commands in latex hyphenation
In the last weeks I tried to work with LaTeX hyphenation functionality.
\c{e8\9es}
In the description at the end of this document \c is discribed as lower case letter but this doesn't make sense. So ...
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hyphenation not working
I really searched a lot and tried a lot of hints (also from this site), but I cannot get the global hyphenation command working.
In my text, I can set the correct hyphernation like this:
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Reviewing hyphenations with LuaTeX
This question led to a new package:
lua-check-hyphen
I wrote a question (Accessing pointers in LuaTeX) hoping it would lead me to a way of reviewing the hyphenations with LuaTeX, and without ...
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Xelatex, verbatim and hyphenation [closed]
I have the following problem with XeLatex, Russian language, hyphenation and verbatim.
Consider the following tex file (text below). It is compiled with XeLaTex, and before verbatim hyphenation is ...
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Hyphenation in LaTeX
In the last weeks I tried to work with LaTeX hyphenation functionality.
.es8t .ex1a2 .ex3em .fal6sc .fe6st5a .flu4g3 .furch8 .ga6ner .ge3n4a
\n{.ge5r"o} .ges6 .halb5
so I found out that the ...
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Hyphenation of terms containing symbols other than letters
I'm trying to hyphenate a chemical name and have come into difficulty. The word I'm trying to hyphenate is poly(ethyeneglycol).
I'm using babel and inputenc. I've tried specifying a custom ...
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How to break a word at a given length (without a hyphen)?
The problem is to get
The question is justified. The answer is right flush. The dimensions of the rectangle are 5cm and 4cm. The length of the question is unknown.
Manually
...
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Something's wrong with tocloft
I want the right margin of TOC to be straight. Instead of this Latex violates the bound (Pic. 1). If babel is commented out (with the last \addcontentsline), the result is still buggy (Pic. 2). ...
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Is there a way to know which words LaTeX hyphenate when I build a .tex [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Check all hyphenations within a document
I'm having problems with hyphenation patterns in babel's spanish. I'm using MikTeX on Windows and it seems very difficult to ...
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how to enforce correct hyphenation of “(near-)uniform” as “(near-)” + “uniform” instead of “(near-” + “)uniform”?
how to enforce correct hyphenation of (near-)uniform as (near-) uniform instead of (near- )uniform?
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Text is going out of bounds; prohibit the hyphenation of all words
I have such preamble:
\documentclass[bachelor, subf]{gost732}
\usepackage[a4paper,includefoot,
left=3.5cm, right=1cm,
top=2cm, bottom=2cm,
headsep=1cm, ...
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How to combine package acronym and hyphenation? [closed]
It seems that words part of an acronym defined using the Acronym package have trouble being hyphenated. How can I make sure that the long version of the acronym will be hyphenated correctly?
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Hyphenation problem with — versus \textemdash
While investigating problems with hyphenation and em-dashes, I came across this:
a piece---perhaps an installation---, involving structural feedback
The document class is article. The problem was ...
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Display hyphenation options for a specific word
When TeX produces Overfull box, is puts something like this in the log:
Overfull \hbox (15.47195pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--9
[]\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 I re-ally re-ally want to get dis-played the ...
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Avoid hyphenation around a specific character
I want to use typographic apostrophe (’) in my document. Using a simple ' don't give the same result.
I can type the ’ on my keyboard. But XeTeX take it as a normal character, ie. like a letter, and ...
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Reduce number of consecutive lines with hyphenation
How can I reduce the number of consecutive lines ending in a hyphenation?
I have a very long document (600 pages) and need an automatic way to tell latex the maximum number of lines ending in a ...
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Why does hyphsubst not work with LuaTeX?
Consider the following MWE:
\RequirePackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\Blindtext
...
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How to break long word containing symbols but with no hyphen?
Below is my minimum working example:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
...
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Hyphenation of words with exotic characters [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen
As a mathematician, I often have to write documents with long words containing embedded mathematical symbols, ...
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When I prevent hyphenation using an \mbox, the box gets pushed into the right margin
I've used \mbox to prevent LaTeX from breaking certain long words into hyphenated pairs. Now I have a new problem: the unbroken words are extending into the right margin. Here's some minimal sample ...
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Titles too wide and not hyphenated correctly
In my master thesis, I have several complicated titles that are longer than one line and that are not hyphenated but go further than the textwidth (see MWE below).
Additionally, while the ...
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What Linux operating system contains patgen for hyphenation?
This question follows previous one. In TexLive, patgen command prompts error of "No such file or directory". I found at About.com that Linux contains patgen. I have Linux Red Hat 9.0 in my system. Can ...
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How to use translate_file correctly in patgen of TexLive?
This question follows previous one about use of patgen.
I installed TeX Live 2011 (thanks Martin) and find patgen (version 2.4) command.
According to manual, command is:
patgen dictionary_file ...
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Does Windows version of TeX contain patgen?
I know two Windows versions of TeX -- MiKTeX and proTeXt. Do they contain patgen package? If not, what Windows version of TeX contain the package? Can MiKTeX or proTeXt import such package from TeX ...
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Hyphenation patterns / lccode / “.dat” format of hyph-utf8
I have made a new encoding for "modern" greek based on ISO 8859-7.
Now I'd like to create hyphenation patterns for it, to use with pdftex (that is, 8 bit based).
If I understand correctly, I can do ...
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LaTeX hyphenation different for inline optional hyphenation and explicit \hyphenation{…} definition
In a text, I get an overfull hbox. To avoid this, I define an optional hyphenation point:
bla bla bla un\-known bla bla bla
pdflatex indeed hyphenates the word at that point.
But when I declare the ...
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How to emulate \url hyphenating without using the url package?
I'm forced to avoid the url package in a proceedings paper (!) but my bibliography includes a long URL. I already
\newcommand{\url}[1]{{\tttext{#1}}}
but the URL spills over to the margin as it ...
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Is there a special hyphen-symbol to be used between capital letters?
In words consisting of small letters, the - hyphen seems right. In words (abbreviations, acronyms) consisting of capital letters, the common hyphen appears (at least imho) to be placed too low and to ...
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Behavior of hyphen '-' and line breaks in two-column layout [closed]
I have a standard LaTeX template where I am seeing strange behavior related to the hyphen '-' character.
Specifically I am noticing that the presence of a hyphen in a word on a line tends to cause ...
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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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Glyph alternates break hyphenation
Alan Munn explined in
Use stylistic set variations only for certain glyphs
how to enable glyph alternates for a certain subset of glyphs.
I'm using the second method he described (the other method ...
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Loading hyphenation patterns in Texmaker [closed]
I've got problems making TexMaker / MikTeX 2.9 use polish hyphenation rules. As from what I've read on this forum (e.g. here), babel package should automatically load polish hyphenation rules after ...
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squeeze the text in table
I had gone thro this question and still in my case, i have the overlapping text in the table
Here is my MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage{pdflscape} % to change certain pages to ...
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How do I prevent TeX from hyphenating acronyms?
Upper-case words look awkward when hyphenated. How do I suppress this behavior?
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Different hyphenation pattern when using oldstyle figures?
It appears that there are different hyphenation patters when using oldstyle figures or not. Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\areaset[current]{336pt}{600pt}
...
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Custom hyphenation for different languages in XeTeX
When I define custom hyphenation with \hyphenation in XeTeX, it seems to only work for the main body of the text, but not for the bits inside \text<language> (as in \textgerman) environments.
I ...
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In lualatex, hyphenation doesn't seem to work for words that contain certain ligatures
It would seem that hyphenation does not work properly under LuaLaTeX if the hyphenation points occur at places where TeX inserts ligatures. Consider the following MWE, which (i) provides hyphenation ...
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amsmath nobreakdash definition to allow normal hyphenation
In the amsmath package documentation it is written:
\newcommand{\n}[1]{$n$\nobreakdash-\hspace{0pt}}
The last example
shows how to prohibit a linebreak after the hyphen but allow normal
...
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Why does babel not work in Tikz?
Adding child nodes to child nodes in TikZ Mindmap has some example code, where German words are not hyphenated correctly. I was trying to fix it by using inputenc (for Umlaute) and ...
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Hyphenate \ttfamily without hyphen dash
Is it possible to hyphenate text without inserting a hyphen.
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{courier}
%\usepackage{bera}
%\usepackage{arev}
\begin{document}
...
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Hyphenation in Beamer Presentations
I am using beamer in LaTeX to create a presentation. But it seems hyphenation is disabled.
At least for the items inside itemize environments and text inside the blocks I don't see any hyphenation ...
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How to automatically hyphenate within \texttt?
This question was phrased as a bug report for LaTeX and I thought it would be helpful to be presented here (including an answer).
The person had a lot of "common words" in typewriter font sprinkled ...
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Memoir: Stopping hyphenation in chapter titles in the table of contents
I am working on my dissertation using xelatex and the memoir class. Many of the titles to my chapters contain long words which I don't want to be hypenated in the table of contents.
According the ...
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Make hyphenated words in PDF searchable
Is there a way to make hyphenated words in a PDF generated by LuaTeX searchable? If the MWE below is converted to a PDF, searching for "lexicon" (in Acrobat X for example) will not find the word since ...
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Ligature suppression with proper hyphenation and comprehensive word list?
[Update: It's been pointed out that my question(s) here weren't clear (or were too hidden). So I inserted red stars at the points where the questions appear.]
In The TeX Book, D.E.K. gives "shelfful" ...
