Questions tagged [hyphenation]
{hyphenation} is about controlling hyphenation in (La)TeX documents.
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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 ...
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Allow words containing forwards slashes to be broken over lines at the point where the forward slash occurs
Does anyone know how to use the hyphenat package in pdflatex to create an automatic hyphenation rule whereby forwards slashes may be used to break words over lines, or as hyphenation points? I've read ...
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How can I hyphenate words with dots in a \texttt environment in LaTeX?
There is a bunch of discussions online how to enable (or disable) hyphenation in \texttt environments. I found both the options
\usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}
and
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\mytexttt}{\...
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Allow hyphenation of dashed words & if hyphenated on the dash, add another dash in next line
I have two requirements. I can achieve each one of these two requirements separately but I have not been able to combine them.
First, I need to allow the hyphenation of dashed words (eg: "entendendo-...
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Use localized quotation marks, hyphenation and ponctuation in BibLaTeX using langid for entries title
What I get:
A. Author, « Some article title ? ». Whatever Journal.
B. Buthor, « Un article ? ». Another Journal.
What I would like:
A. Author, “Some article title?”. Whatever Journal.
...
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How to use \discretionary inside soul's \hl?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
Some \hl{te\discretionary{-}{-}{-}xt}.
\end{document}
The above does not compile due to Missing { inserted, Improper ...
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Overfull lines in an enumerated-style paragraph
The last item in my enumerate in my itemize list oversteps the margin. I have tried bounding it in {} but didn't work.
My code is as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item Hver uafhængig sløjfe tildeles ...
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Latin hyphenation and macrons (in ConTeXt, but I believe also in LaTeX)
It seems that there are some problems for (Con)TeX(t) when hyphenating macronized words. When I inspect the ConTeXt language-file for Latin (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/languages-mkiv.pdf)...
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Why such odd line breaks in a paper
This may not be a question appropriate to this forum, as I don't have any LaTex code to post. If so, culpa mea!
My question: I am seeing some, in my opinion, very awkward hyphenating words for line ...
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No hyphenation for ngerman.sty with plain PDFTeX
Recently I installed MiKTeX and TeXnicCenter on a Windows-10 PC.
The output profiles for TeX => DVI, TeX => PDF etc. were copied from the respective LaTeX profiles with "latex" replaced by "...
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\hyphenrules does not break words
Following the code used both here and here, using \hyphenrules should inform polyglossia about breaking points within a word. The following code does not break the word in question. Why not? What can ...
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How to cope with hbox overfull caused by hyphenation problems?
I'm writing my thesis using a custom font instead of the default CMU Sans-serif. I happen to find that, with this font, my lines tend to be more likely to suffer hyphenation problems (or maybe it's ...
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Why doesn't TeX hyphenate a really long word for which I've indicated some permissible hyphenation points?
Based on Automatic long word breaking in whole document I constructed an example of hyphenating a long word:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{...
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How can you show the syllable breakdown in a final document?
I would like to recreate something like the following image from Lives of the Presidents in Words of One Syllable. While most of the text uses monosyllabic words, the words which had more than one ...
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Linebreak composed term with Registered sign and slash
Consider this example:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\newcommand{\smlnk}{Simulink\textsuperscript{\textregistered}}%
\newcommand{\mtlb}{MATLAB\textsuperscript{\textregistered}}%
\newcommand{\...
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Listings Package causes normal text to hyphenate at forward slashes
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII hardware/software
\end{document}
This results in this ...
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Hyphen not done - how to fix
I have the following text
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,includeheadfoot,margin=2.54cm]{geometry} % for margins on a A4paper
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[english, ...
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Why aren't these hyphenation \patterns applied in lualatex?
I'm compiling the following code in lualatex, and looking at the console log for the output of \showhyphens:
\language=99
\lefthyphenmin=1
\righthyphenmin=1
%\patterns{a9b ba} % L1: ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-...
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How to convert all hyphenation patterns from Unicode to T1 in lualatex?
I'm trying to use lualatex with old, 8-bit, non-Unicode fonts:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\def\myhelvetica{\fontfamily{phv}...
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Hyphenation in LINK text
I use, in agreement with the post of SE, the command \link.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcommand{\link}[1]{%
{%
...
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Hyphenation doesn't work if the word is inside brackets and bold
So, the hyphenation apparently doesn't work, if the word is inside of round brackets AND in bold font.
This is the code:
\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
...
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Hyphenation with Babel and Polyglossia
I've more or less the same content, compiled with babel and polyglossia:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\babelfont{rm}[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle]{...
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\addfontfeature resets \prehyphenchar and \posthyphenchar
This question is similar, but applies only to XETEX.
In LuaTEX, \prehyphenchar and \posthyphenchar supposedly affect the current language:
All languages start out with \prehyphenchar=`\-, \...
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Word wrapping text only when the hbox is overfull
I am using pandoc to process an markdown file that is causing me some issues with regard to in-line code blocks. In some cases I need to be able to have a long string without any punctuation or ...
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Stretching the text (in particular in math mode) to fit the page size in a rough transfer (using “\\”)
Sometimes the problem arises when the formula for the standard LaTeX facilities is torn wrong.
For example, he writes x \in on one line and [a;b] on the next.
So I have to do it \\ to make transfers. ...
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How to prevent word wrapping with 2 hyphens?
I have the following markdown file that demonstrates the issue (at least in my environment):
---
title: TEST
subtitle: Minimum Working Example
version: 1.0 rev0
document: TEST-MWE
date: 27 December ...
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Why can \def\magyarOptions{defaults=hu-min} break the behavior of magyar babel?
I am writing a document in Hungarian which includes the circle symbol for temperature. Later I have to convert the document to docx so I can only use a small subset of latex, for example, without the ...
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Software Documentation Dot-Operator/Period Hyphenation
I'm still new-ish to latex, and I'm trying to document some software using the tool. I'm referencing local terms that are long and contain periods/dot-operators. I know how/why Latex doesn't like to ...
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Long chapter title with graphics: indentation and no hyphenation
I was already helped to obtain the chapter title formatting that I wanted in Chapter with graphical formatting
Now I have the problem of chapters with a long title, whereby I get
with this code
\...
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Apply hyphenation to words containing dashes only
We render PDF Documents using latex in a german speaking medical environment.
Since the built-in hyphenation mechanisms of latex result in word-breaks that seem awkward to the users, we chose to ...
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Overfull hbox in a section title
Every now and then I get this error and I don't know how to solve it. From what I understand reading other posts, it's because LaTeX doesn't know how to hyphenate some sentences and finds no good way ...
