I'm new to LaTeX; is there a way to tell the TeX engine to generate the hyphenation of a given list of words as a text output file? For example:
abdomen
abduction
aberrance
...
What I want is something like:
ab-domen
ab-duc-tion
aber-rance
...
possibly as text.
\showhyphens writes this to the terminal and log:
\documentclass{article}
\showhyphens{
abdomen
abduction
aberrance
}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
Produces a log file with
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 ab-domen ab-duc-tion aber-rance
\showhyphens \usepackage[french]{babel} or whatever you use. You can use \showhyphens multiple times within the document and it will show the hyphenation active at that point
Commented
May 28, 2023 at 11:52
\showhyphens and \begin{checkhyphens} give the wrong hyphenation, meaning that if I select my language, the hyphenation is actually different and "more" correct, but not on all words. In fact, if I remove the corresponding hyph-***.tex file from its folder (hyph-utf8), then the hyphenation still works the same, possibly meaning that the file was never used in the first place?
\makeatletter\show\l@italian will show \char... if Italian is loaded in the fomat @giofrida
Commented
May 28, 2023 at 15:33
\l@italian=\char"23 in the console output, though it shows even without the file in place. Not that it means anything, but still.
There are a number of ways to do this.
With LuaLaTeX, you can use the showhyphenation package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showhyphenation}
\begin{document}
%\parbox{0pt}{%
abdomen
abduction
aberrance
%}
\end{document}
You can also place the words in a parbox of zero width. Each word (except the first word in some engines) will automatically line break at each of its hyphenation points.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\parbox{0pt}{%
abdomen
abduction
aberrance
}
\end{document}
\showhyphensusing the wrong hyphenation patterns in different languages, so... be aware of this.\showhyphensshows the patterns in use at that point so you need to select the language first