Questions tagged [german]
{german} is for questions specific to the German language, including e.g. umlauts or the implementation of German conventions and standards.
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Latest German dictionary pattern
I have included the format file latest German pattern from:
https://ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl?lang=en
I have generated 45 German words in InDesign (using Duden Dictionary) ...
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Guideline on setting hyphenation preferences in German compounds
Let's say we wish to provide different priorities of hyphenation points in long compound words in German. Here is what we tried out for now:
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{iftex}
\...
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pdflatex + soulutf8 + German shorthands = eaten up ASCII chars
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\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage{soulutf8}
%%% See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/426036
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
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How do you use ligatures if word stem and syllables do not coincide?
I use ligatures. They are a beautiful typographic tradition and many fonts support them. Unfortunately the rules to apply ligatures are not hard and fast.
One rule says that you use ligatures only ...
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BibTex: Change Bd. to Vol. without changing language
I use the bibgerm-package for bibtex. My problem is: I need the german version of citation inside the text: [Meier und Hendriksen] but I need the english short form of volume, instead of the german ...
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German hyphenation, latest rules, permanent file name?
I notice that babel and polyglossia provide for old (1901) and new (1996) german hyphenation, with german-x-latest and ngerman-x-latest as alternatives to what I assume is the more stable german and ...
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\babelhyphenation: why does rasing a penalty lead to a break?
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\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\textwidth=104.2mm
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\babelprovide[hyphenrules=ngerman-x-latest]{ngerman}%%% according to the documentation of ...
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How to change language in citation?
I am using,
bibliographystyle(apalike).
when I quote a work from 2 authors it shows up as [AuthorA and Author B, 2023]. I would like to have the "and" in German as "und". I tried ...
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Color names in the current language in LaTeX
Let's say we wish to verbalize the colors used in a document in the current language:
\documentclass[USenglish,ngerman]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\...
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Automatic text breaking in \text{} doesn't work. Neither do newline now breakline, text is written into boundaries
%%English is not my main language, this might be a german problem but google didn't help here.The text in \text{} in written into the set boundary.It doesn't break into a new line and just disappears. ...
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No hyphenation for ngerman with Plain-TeX after a recent MiKTeX package update
German hyphenation worked fine with my MiKTeX installation of February 2019 for Plain TeX input with just ngerman.sty as control sequence. But after I executed a package update on 26 September 2020 I ...
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How can I change the IEEEtran bibstyle language to German?
I am new so please do not judge me.
I am using Overleaf to create my LaTex documents and would like to use the IEEEtran BibTex style in order to manage my references. Since I am sometimes writing my ...
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inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX with G-Brief
Good morning everybody,
I've used the following file serveral times to create letters. I've never had any issues. But now, out of the sudden, I am getting the following error for each German letter (...
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german hyphenation
I am using inputenc to have umlauts etc. it works fine, if I am not change hyphenation , but I want to have german hyphenation too.
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
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microtype + \babelposthyphenation: Why does lowering a hyphenation penalty at one position break the word at another position?
Running the code
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\textwidth=109mm
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
\usepackage[babel=true,verbose=errors]{microtype}
% \...
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Change Language Output for \citeauthor \citeyear
First of all I want to say that I have no idea about LaTeX and its structure. I'm writing my thesis and I'm forced to use LaTeX.
So far so good.
My template was in German and I have to write my thesis ...
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How to invoke babel, a US-English exception list, and hyphenrules properly?
Let's assume we care about the proper hyphenation of a few English words in a multi-lingual document in which the main language is not English. These few words happen to find themselves in ushyphex....
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Definite articles in multilingual Chicago-style bibliography
[Preface: Not a super advanced LaTeX user.] I'm trying to create a Chicago-note style bibliography using biblatex-chicago in Overleaf and running into trouble with a particular case concerning the ...
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How do I temporarily/locally change citation style?
Preliminaries
I am to use the template of my university so I can't really change the style but it would be fine if I used different packages with the same output. The thesis is in German. Also: I am a ...
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cleveref customization + otherlanguage + cref don't jive well together
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\documentclass[ngerman]{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth=168mm,paperheight=240mm,height=210mm,width=144mm,includeall=true,showframe,showcrop]{geometry}%%% have visual text and page borders
\...
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Translate sections into German
This is my Code:
%% Packages
%% ========
%% Babel provides support for languages. 'english' uses British
%% English hyphenation and text snippets like "Figure" and
%% "Theorem". ...
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Using \setmainlanguage{german} after \usepackage{polyglossia} leads to odd-looking capital umlaut letters when using EB Garamond
Pay attention to the style of the capital umlaut letters “ÄÖÜ” aud “ÄÖÜ” in both cases.
Example 1 (with \setmainlanguage{german}):
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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Is there a file with hyphenation for long german words?
Is there a file with lots of hyphenation? In my current project folder is no such file. I had to create it my own. I know that there are packages that could do the same but i find it very hard to ...
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German quotation marks in scrartcl with ``text''
Apologies, but I could not find a solution in all the similar questions asked here, so opening new question with my specific problem.
Very simple but long document. Premable more or less just this (+...
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charter package: broken umlauts with fontenc package and T1 encoding
I want to use the fontenc package in combination with the charter font package (using pdflatex for compiling). With \usepackage[TI]{fontenc} included, however, the capital versions of german umlauts ...
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Indexing, making glossaries in languages with inflections
I would like to add a glossary at the end of my book which would also feature a list of the page number (indices), where the given book number can be found.
This can be done by the standard ...
