hyphenation for language ngerman doesn't work in TeXnicCenter/MiKTeX

Question

Hello everyone!

I have a problem writing my master's thesis and I hope someone can help. I am using TeXnicCenter 2.02 in combination with MiKTeX 2.9.4248. The Header of my document looks like this:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} 

\usepackage{amsmath} 

\usepackage{amsthm} 

\usepackage{fancyhdr} 

\usepackage{titlesec} 

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 

\usepackage{hyphsubst} 

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}



\begin{document}



    Text of my document... 




\end{document}

Unfortunately the hyphenation is incorrect. For example the German word "Optimierungsproblem" at the end of one line is separated to "Optimierungsprob- lem" instead of the correct way "Optimierungspro- blem"

and there is one Warning with the message:

"pdflatex > Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for the language ngerman into the Format. Please, configure your TeX System to add them and rebuild the Format. Now I will use the Patterns preloaded for \language=0 instead of Input line 42"

The Input lines 41, 42 and 43 (of the ngerman.ldf file) look like this:

41 \ifx\l@ngerman\@undefined

42 \@nopatterns{ngerman}

43 \adddialect\l@ngerman0 

The german hyphenation package is installed in MiKTeX. I've tried to find an answer in other questions and someone suggested to add the line "ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex" to the language.dat file. So I checked the language.dat file but the following lines are all included:

54 ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex

55 ngerman-x-2014-05-21 dehyphn-x-2014-05-21.tex

56 =ngerman-x-latest

Can anyone help me regarding this problem? If I need to add a log file or other information, please let me know.

Best regards, Dom

Answer 1

Some German words just cannot be hyphenated properly by the package. Especially those that consists actually of two or more words. For these words use:

\hyphenation{Ele-men-tar-ob-jek-te Op-ti-mie-rungs-pro-blem}

Seperate the words with a space character, like in the example.

Edit 1:

A full example:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amsthm} 
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\usepackage{titlesec} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{hyphsubst} 
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\hyphenation{Ele-men-tar-ob-jek-te Op-ti-mie-rungs-pro-blem}

\begin{document}

Text of my document... 

\end{document}

Edit 2:

See here. Sorry, it's German, but it's meant to help the author.