Questions tagged [hyphenation]
{hyphenation} is about controlling hyphenation in (La)TeX documents.
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Hyphenation not working on newly installed machine [on hold]
I have a fresh installation of Linux and I try to compile some old documents. It appears that the hyphenation does not function the same it did on my old machine. In fact, there is no hyphenation at ...
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MiKTeX not Hyphening English [on hold]
Here a minimal example of a tex file with random English-generated text (note that using Ubuntu 18.04).
\documentclass{article}
% I get the same output either with or without using babel
\usepackage[...
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Colorize syllables for 1st graders learning to read
In Germany and possibly other countries, some first graders learn to read using the so-called "syllable method", where the syllables in every word with two or more syllables are colored differently. ...
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How to fix \useshorthands \defineshorthand usage on bookmark entries?
\documentclass[10pt,a5paper]{abntex2}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\useshorthands{~}\defineshorthand{~=}{\hyp{}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{First~=Chapter}
\end{document}
...
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MiKTeX not hyphenating (again)
I have the following tex file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Cohesive zone model is a promising technique for simulating fracture
processes in brittle ice. In this work it is applied to ...
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Allow hyphenation in custom latex bib style
I created a custom bib style which renders a reference as
[14] R. Boer.
Vektor- und Tensorrechnung fur Ingenieure.
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1st ed., 1982.
doi:10.1007/978-3-...
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texttt is not breaking the line at existing hyphens
I've got longer phrases separated with hyphens that I'd like to typeset in typewriter font. I'd like latex to break the lines to avoid them from overflowing:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
...
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two sets of hyphenation patterns without a newlanguage
While reading hymaster.tex, part of hyacc-cm, we find the following statement:
It is important to use version 3.xx of TeX, and a version
3.xx of plain.tex. The critical date is autumn 1989, and
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No hyphenation on “section”, “Table”, etc. with Cleveref package
I'd like to remove hyphenation at the end of a line on words like 'section', 'Table', 'Figure' etc. when using the \cref command with the Cleveref package. My current solution is the following:
\...
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Hyphenate URLs in paragraphs while maintaining an underline link
Problem:
I wish to break or hyphenate links in paragraphs while maintaining an underline link.
Minimal Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Why is it useful to change \hyphenchar?
In il2code.tex there is such text:
%% Alternative \hyphenchar ("je-li" is no "je\hyphenchar li").
\chardef\extrahyphenchar=156
\def\extrahyphens{%
\hyphenchar\tenrm=\extrahyphenchar
\hyphenchar\...
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Hyphenation of bold font
I am getting unexpected hyphenation behavior when using bold font. Below is the output using normal font.
Below is when using bold font. Note that font is not justified on the right side.
Source ...
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Prevent bad hyphenation and force word wrap in specific cases
I have browsed multiple other entries related to hyphenation and none seemed to actually present the same situation.
I have an utterly long document (my PhD thesis) in the body of which I use a ...
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Interactively checking default hyphenations
I'm using this programme
\let\\\showhyphens
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\begin{document}
to check default hyphenations interactively by typing
*\\{necessarily}
&c. Is ...
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How to allocate more space inside a cell in a table? [duplicate]
I'd like to create an evenly distributed two columns table on a page. In order to have the vertical division centered, I used tabularx:
\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X X}
a & b \\
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Increasing the number of allowed hyphenation exceptions in XeLaTeX?
I'm trying to load a huge hyphenation exception dictionary in XeLaTeX, and I'm greeted with the following error message:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [exception dictionary=8191].
Is it possible to ...
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Hyphenation exception syntax for LuaLaTeX
I want to hyphenate some German words. As an example, for the word Erb-b2-Familie, I want
the first hyphen sign to be non-breakable
the second hyphen sign to be breakable
the rest of the word (...
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Can I tell Latex to hyphenate first, only then try to stretch?
Earlier today on Why my document is not hyphenating on words starting with upper case letter? (I am not using \uchyph=0) I figured out that increasing the value of \emergencystretch too much will ...
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Why is my document is not hyphenating on words starting with upper case letter? (I am not using \uchyph=0)
I recently noticed on my thesis (template here) that words starting with upper case letter are not hyphenating. Then, I researched and found about the usage of \uchyph=0 How do I prevent TeX from ...
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Getting custom hyphenation patterns to work in xelatex
I have a file mylanguage.tex that contains hyphenation patterns for mylanguage:
\newlanguage\mylanguage
\begingroup
\language\mylanguage
\patterns{
1b
}
\endgroup
And a test file foo.tex:
\...
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The easiest way of using customized hyphenation patterns in xelatex+polyglossia
I would like to use xelatex+polyglossia with my own hyphenation patterns. I managed to load the patterns by adding a line
yhgreek yhpatterns.tex
to
/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-var/tex/generic/...
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Hyphenation exception list items with underscore?
As a followup to this question, I'd like to ask: how to properly add hyphenation exceptions that contain underscores?
NB: Previous questions (and I found a few) settled with somehow fixing the ...
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Is there a way to suppress the hyphen when using hyphenat with htt option?
I am using the hyphenat package with the htt option.
The whole thing is used to document an application programming interface (API). Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[...
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Question about exercise 6.6 from TeXbook
In the answer to exercise 6.6 it is said:
TeX will try to hyphenate before \dash
But the folowing example shows that it will not.
\def\extraspace{\nobreak \hskip 0pt plus .15em\relax}
\def\dash{\...
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Hyphenating problem when using ebgaramond
Currently I am facing a problem of hyphenation when i used the package \usepackage{ebgaramond}, but when i remove this package (i.e \usepackage{ebgaramond}) hyphenation goes fine, but i need the text ...
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How can I force the hyphenation for a short-first-syllable in LaTeX?
Why LaTeX does not hyphenate "esco" in a way I explicitely set (i.e. "e-sco")?
I noticed this behaviour persists for any single-letter initial syllable.
Here is a MWE that forces hyphenation by ...
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Is it tolerable to force hyphenate English one-syllable word in small layouts?
I already know English language does not allow hyphenatation of one-syllable words, that is why I am not asking this question on english.sx.
But I am facing a typesetting task (humanities) with a ...
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Language settings in bibliography
Since hyphenation will work differently for different languages, I need to include information in my .bib file about the language of certain entries (e.g. title, author, publisher), if they are not in ...
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Wrapping text in column headers while avoiding weird hyphenation
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
\hline
Model & \multicolumn{1}{m{2.5cm}}{Something Before XYZ} & \multicolumn{1}{m{2.5cm}}{Something After XYZ} &...
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luatex code for checking/avoiding hyphen at page break
There are cool things made possible by Lua, e.g. Paragraph callback to help with widows/orphans hand tuning .
In the final version, I often do "by hand" checking that last line before page-break is ...
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How to hyphenate in a \synt{} with the syntax package?
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{syntax}
\begin{document}
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
\synt{blahblah-blahblah} blah.
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How to prevent \raggedright from removing left-indent of \parshape?
Output with \raggedright looks good when greater indentation is specified for \parshape, but \raggedright eats up smaller indentation.
If a word doesn't fit on a line, is there a way to prevent ...
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\lccode`\'=39 breaks hyphenation rules
I tried to use
\lccode`\'=39
in preamble in order to correctly hyphenate words with apostrophe, but it produced an infrequent but annoying side effect: some words left the single last letter (no ...
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Custom hyphenation for a different language
I load babel and specify the default language, but adding words of that language to \hyphenation{} command results in a number of errors:
Improper \hyphenation will be flushed. \hyphenation{в
...
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Please, are there solutions for the problem of hyphenating words
Please, there are solutions to the problem of crossword words
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Hyphenation for transliterated Greek
Is there a hyphenation package available for Greek text transliterated into the Roman alphabet?
I'm creating a document that contains many (i.e. several hundred) Greek place names, which are ...
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Hyphenate word with detokenized underscores
I want to write clean underscores without backslashes and hyphenate words by underscores.
I tried to use underscore package, but it doesn't work with clean underscores and also breaks ...
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Why no hyphenation of “kön-nen” in German?
I have a LaTeX document that has a sentence containing the German word "können" (which can be hyphenated perfectly as "kön-nen" IMHO). An ugly paragraph is output, because the word is not hyphenated ...
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What is the difference between "= and \hyp{}?
Sometimes I see questions talking about using "=, others just use \hyp{}. Are they the same thing?
For example, on these questions you find both "= and \hyp use:
Hyphenation of words containing ...
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How to create an alternative to shortcut "= or \hyp{}?
After this question answer How to use the standard - (hyphen) as the \hyp{} command from the hyphenat package?, I decided to not use that hack. Then, I am looking for an alternative to that.
On my ...
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How to write the hyphen substitution of - by \hyp on my preamble?
When I integrated this How to use the standard - (hyphen) as the \hyp{} command from the hyphenat package? into my main document, I got errors about hyphen usage on translations packages:
Redoing ...
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How to use the standard - (hyphen) as the \hyp{} command from the hyphenat package?
I found this answer on http://www.oipapio.com/question-79176
\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\cs_new:Npn \hyphenfix_emdash:c {---}
\cs_new:Npn \hyphenfix_endash:c ...
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Prevent hyphenation in `type-II` with LuaLaTeX
I want to prevent the hyphenation of type-II at the dash.
I tried type\nobreakdash-II and mbox as workaround, but
this is not very readable in the code and
I want to separate layout information ...
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Problem with hyphenation in Ubuntu ( No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for french babel)
I have a problem when compiling a latex document in Ubuntu (18.04). I am using TeXmaker et MikTeX. The message is
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel) the ...
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Disable hyphenation for an entire paragraph
How can I disable hyphenation for an entire paragraph without changing the hyphenation of its words throughout the rest of the text? And of course, maintaining the paragraph alignment!
Thanks, in ...
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Remove hyphens from chapter, section titles
How do I remove hyphenating from all the \part{}, \chapter{}, \section{}, etc., titles of a document?
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newline begins with dash
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
%\hyphenation{ENCODE}
\begin{document}
All data used for this study are analysed with a different release of ENCODE \textendash\ the collection of ...
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unable to get hyphenation patterns for german on fedora
I run the following file with pdflatex
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\begin{document}
Tach auch
\end{document}
and got the errors:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3....
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protect hyphenated word from breaking
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
bbbb bbbb bbbb ddf hdfhdf hdfhfd hdfhdf ddfgdfg dgdfg ert we Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is equal to 1
\end{document}
The output ...
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XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX ignore \hyphenation
I'm trying to get all hyphenations that the LaTeX-algorithm gives out. So I'm trying this:
echo "\\\documentclass{standalone}
\\\hyphenation{Py-ra-mi-de}
\\\showhyphens{Pyramide}" | xelatex
This ...
