{hyphenation} is about controlling hyphenation in (La)TeX documents.
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hyphenation and justifying in \epigraph
Is it possible to justify and hyphenate quotes typeset within an \epigraph?
An MWE and its output are shown below:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
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How set hyphen (divis) to specific unicode char
I need a specific divis / hyphen character or more than one randomly show
This code is not working at the present. Does anyone have any suggestions?
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{blindtext}
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Not allowing hyphenation of urls in references
Is there a way to globally turn off hyphenation of links in bibliography?
Current state doesn't please me:
Minmal working example:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{url}
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How to change hyphenation of a particular word
Possible Duplicate:
Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen
How to change hyphenation of a particular word?
specifically I don't like how it is line breaking position
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Trying to make sense of TeX decisions (stretching, tolerance)
For example, if I don't set stretch parameters (tolerance, badness, emergencystretch, sloppy, etc) I get some overfull boxes (full LaTeX code post at the end).
Notice that TeX seems unwilling to ...
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Ancient Greek hyphenation in LuaLaTeX
Can anybody tell me the current state of hyphenation patterns in LuaLaTeX, especially with regard to Ancient Greek?
I searched here on tex.sx and on the web. There are many mailing lists discussing ...
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Command for special text with reserved LaTeX symbols
Surely I am missing something here, but I can't remember =(. I want to build a command that accepts special LaTeX symbols and correctly display them. As special I mean \, _, or some others, and ...
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Disable hyphenation in footnotes
I want to disable hyphenation in footnotes, because I have special codes for a special program and the readers should copy this code into his program and therefore its not good, that there is a hyphen ...
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How I can add my own language [closed]
I wrote an artificial language (conlang).
What I can add my own language in LaTeX? Conlang has more letters than English (utf8 and some ligatures) and specyfic hyphenations.
Where is simple/minimal ...
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How to typeset Tibetan in XeLatex with correct linebreaks?
I am trying to typeset Tibetan language in a document, but the text does not wrap at the margin. I think this could be easily fixed if I tell XeLaTeX to recognise the Tibetan tsheg character ('TIBETAN ...
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No hyphens in biblatex
How can I suppress hyphenation in biblatex?
(I know that only one sentence usually is considered bad question quality, but why over-complicate a simple (?) problem)
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\xspace and hyphenation
I was considering to use xspace for some common standard terms in my document, like:
\newcommand{\ring}{my secret ring\xspace}
I am now wondering, if hyphenation gets it right, when I do this?
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Hyphenation in classicthesis graffito
I am using the classicthesis package and the graffito side notes it provides. However, I'd like those side notes to be properly hyphenated, even though I think they were not intended to be by the ...
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\hyphenation{ } in a part of text
Is it possible to make \hyphenation{ } only in one chapter or small text?
Not the whole text but only in small pieces of text.
Maybe it is possible to make a new language and use different ...
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No hyphen for a word
I want to put pdflatex to not put a hyphen in a word went it comes to the end of the line.
I tried to put a \- in the beginning or the end of that word but it doesn't work.
For example if I put:This ...
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hyphenation and utf8
from Tex FAQ - hyphenation I see that trying to help Latex in correctly hyphenating words won't work when the utf8 encoding is used. Is there a work around?
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How can I really force the hyphenation points of a word?
I try to make XeLaTeX hyphenate the German word "Sicherheitsbeauftragter". I tried several values for x in \tolerance=x and instances of \hyphenation{Si-cher-heits-be-auf-trag-ter}. Nothing worked. ...
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Is there an interface to call the Hyphenation Algorithm in plain TeX?
As the title said. Which TeX engine can do that? Knuth TeX, XeTeX, pdfTeX, or LuaTeX?
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Prevent hyphenation of natbib authors
How do I prevent the hyphenation of natbib authors?
Original question:
\hyperref will allow author names from \natbib-citations to break lines. How can I prevent this? If possible, I would disable ...
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badbox of “underful hbox (badness 1158)”
I wrote the following reference in my .bib file:
@ARTICLE{Auvinet11,
author = {E. Auvinet and F. Multon and A. St-Arnaud and J. Rousseau and J. Meunier},
title = {Fall Detection With Multiple ...
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Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen
Contrary to English, in German there are quite a few words containing a hyphen, e.g. "Arbeiter-Unfallversicherung" (workers' accident insurance). By default, (La)TeX will only break such words after ...
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How to prevent linebreaks after hyphen if word starts with hyphen?
(Remark: Maybe this is a typically German problem, I'm not sure in which other languages that might be relevant)
Sometimes there are words which start with a hyphen, as they are connected with a word ...
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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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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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New language - hyphenation
I'm working in a project (Ubuntu Manual, if you're curious) which requires TeX to create a PDF document. But when we have almost all translated, I've found that there wasn't an hyphenation pattern for ...
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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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patgen: what do these values mean?
What do hyph_start, hyph_finish, pat_start, pat_finish, good weight, bad weight and threshold asked by patgen mean?
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patgen: tex file generation from dictionary
I am managing a project where we will need to run patgen on a new niche language (a mixture of English and vernacular). I am just wondering if anyone has any advice on generating the patterns.
For ...
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Could not use patgen [closed]
All I see on my console is "Bad Representation" for even the .TRA file example of the patgen2 manual itself. What should I do?
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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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Specifying multiple hyphenation exception lists for multi-lingual documents
This question led to a new feature in a package:
babel
By default, (La)TeX fails at hyphenating some words, e.g., the English word potable (should be pot-able) or the German word Mor-dop-fer ...
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smarter hyphenation for narrow columns?
I know how to turn off hyphenation via \nohyphens{.....} (from hyphenat). But what I'd really like would be to hyphenate smartly. What I mean by this should hopefully be made clear by the following ...
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Force hyphen line-break one words with dieresis [duplicate]
Normally Latex adds a hyphen if the word at the end of a line is too long, and continues the rest of the word on the next line. I'm writing my document in Dutch and when the last word on a line ...
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How to remove diaeresis after hyphen
To quote Wikipedia:
In Dutch, spellings such as coëfficiënt are necessary because the digraphs oe and ie normally represent the simple vowels [u] and [i], respectively. However, hyphenation is now ...
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Justify long line with no spaces but a lot of hyphens
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{showframe}
%%% Book Layout %%%
\setstocksize{4in}{5.75in}
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How to use hyph-utf8 correctly?
I'm using MiKTeX and pdfLaTeX and the package manager tells me that hyph-utf8 is installed and auto-download of packages is activated, too.
But when I do \usepackage{hyph-utf8}, because I hope that ...
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biblatex: Switching languages for *citations* according to the bibentry's “hyphenation” field
Quoting from section 3.1.2.1 of the biblatex manual:
[The babel] option controls which
language environment is used if the
babel package is loaded and a
bibliography entry includes a
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Automatically prevent line-break at hyphen of specific words (e.g. “dual-self”)
Usually questions about hyphenation and line-breaks are concerned about how to allow hyphenation when a word already contains a hyphen. That's not what I'm after:
I would like to prevent the word ...
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Insert hyphenation point in BibTeX using PDFLaTeX and hyperref
How to tell PDFLaTeX to make hyphenation in place where I want it to be?
I have my document file:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage{hyperref}
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Hyphenating words with archaic spellings
I often work with texts from the 17- to 1800s that (in addition to now obsolete words) contain familiar words in slightly different spelling. The language of these texts, and of the ones I'm writing, ...
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Faulty output because of Polyglossia issue [closed]
this is my first question on here so I hope I'll include all necessary information right away.
I am running MiKTeX 2.9, set up for XeTeX; my Editor is TeXMaker and my OS is Windows 8, 64-bit.
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How to force LaTeX not to break the line after a hyphen “-”?
With ~ we can enforce that no line break occures between two words.
But this does not seem to work with special characters. I want LaTeX to enforce not to break the line after the - in (re-)creation.
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\RaggedRight makes document longer
I have a document carefully written to fit in 4 pages; but when I added a \raggedright (or \RaggedRight with use of the ragged2e package) the length gets longer. Furthermore, suddenly the output ...
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How to wrap text in line by adding spaces
I am writing one text which has some very long words but i don't need to split word in multiline using hyphen. I just want to add spaces to fit in the line as shown below.
This is my first ...
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Option to break urls with carriage-return symbol?
There are several ways to get long, uncooperative URLs to line-break in LaTeX. If you're using pdfLaTeX, then the hyperref package can break them across lines for you, roughly after any /. If you ...
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Hyphenation does not work with acro and luatex, but with pdftex
I'm using luatex 0.70.1 together with acro 1.2 and I have the following MWE.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{DNA}{
short=DNA,
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How to hyphenate a reference that has a lastname with a hyphen?
I need to hyphenate a long lastname with a hyphen in it in a reference, e.g.:
@article{LastHyphenName:2013xy,
author = {Longlast-Namewithhyphen, Antonio and Anotherlastname, David},
title = {{How to ...
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No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language
I'm using babel package for spanish language. However, each time I compile my document, the package babel throws me a warning:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) ...
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Hyphenation not working in document
I have got a problem. Hyphenation doesn't work in cover letter template document listed below. I can't find reason. Please help. Best regards, WP.
%% start of file `template_en.tex'.
%% Copyright ...
