Questions tagged [hyphenation]
{hyphenation} is about controlling hyphenation in (La)TeX documents.
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remove hyphen when breaking words over to new line [duplicate]
I am compiling a table whose entries are long variable names from a computer program source code. These variables names, although single words, do not fit within the column width and need to be ...
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New language - hyphenation
I'm working in a project (Ubuntu Manual, if you're curious) which requires TeX to create a PDF document. But when we have almost all translated, I've found that there wasn't an hyphenation pattern for ...
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How to automatically hyphenate within \texttt?
This question was phrased as a bug report for LaTeX and I thought it would be helpful to be presented here (including an answer).
The person had a lot of "common words" in typewriter font sprinkled ...
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Hyphenation of quote environment in Beamer
Beamer turns hyphenation off. There are good reasons for that (e.g., "if you need automatic hyphenation, you have too much text on your slides"). But I still get hyphenation inside a quote ...
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Why does \usepackage[british]{babel} hyphenate the word "alternate" incorrectly?
Now I know there are hyphenation differences between British and American English but in no dictionary, British or American, could I find the word "alternate" to be broken down to al·tern·ate instead ...
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How to reduce the number of hyphenation?
Sometimes, assume our document contain many long words, TeX may generate some hyphenation at the end of line. But it really hinder our smooth reading. Although I know we can add the hyphenation rule ...
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Is it possible to make the hyphenation char gray?
In math articles, sometimes there might be a lot of composed phrases like $R$-module, $r$-$K$-linear, etc., and in some cases it could be confusing whether a - is for hyphenation or is it just a ...
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Allow line break, but without inserting a dash
I have a sentence that contains a number of long dataset names. I would like to allow LaTeX to break these names at certain positions that I would like to specify somehow just like I can use \- to ...
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Manual hyphenation in text part of \href
How can I use manual hyphenation commands (see https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX-W%C3%B6rterbuch:_Silbentrennung) inside the text part of \href?
\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\RequirePackage[...
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Combining internal hyphenation of words with \discretionary
I have been transcribing an old, public-domain novel and am attempting to typeset it using Latex as close as I can to the original formatting of the book. I've taken Memoir template and am modifying ...
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How to make inline description* list left-aligned and hyphenated?
I am having a simple doc:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\newlist{inlinedesc}{description*}{1}
\setlist[inlinedesc]{itemjoin={{ $\odot$ }}, itemjoin*={{ and }}}
\...
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Doing Automation Hyphenation [duplicate]
I want to make automation for hyphenation so I didn't need to write tra- \gedy
Is a package in latex that could help me?
\documentclass[12pt,A4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{...
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Hyphenate \texttt
Before anyone says anything, yes, of course I've seen this. But, it's not what I want.
What I'm looking for is basically a way to either alter the way \texttt works, or a new command that works just ...
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How to facilitate inclusive writing in french?
When I write in french I often have to use the inclusive form:
The students did their homework.
Les étudiant·e·s ont fait leurs devoirs.
However, it is not easy to get a good-looking example with ...
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confused about babel australian/british/american hyphenation differences
I'm quite confused about hyphenation differences between the different English variants.
I tend to use australian as my default language, but I notice that this often does quite poorly at hyphenation.
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Why does LaTeX neither break at nor hyphenate after a "user kern"?
When using the \kern command for user-defined kerns or the \, shorthand for small non-breaking spaces, this expands to a "userkern" node. At such nodes LaTeX doesn't break the line and the ...
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Optex: How to repeat hyphen on next line when hyphenating prehyphenated words automatically?
In Czech, many words (e.g. compound adjectives like modro-zelený) contain a hyphen.
When these words are hyphenated, the hyphen is supposed to repeat on the next line to distinguish the meaning of ...
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hyphenation doesn't work with underscores in word "Improper \hyphenation will be flushed"
I'm getting the error "Improper \hyphenation will be flushed" \hyphenation{VC\_-X1\_-Specific\_-SetupProfiling\_-func}. I think thats because of the underscores and the number 1 which is not ...
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Can polyglossia's option splithyphens be used in English?
Croatian, Czech and Slovak languages in polyglossia have splithyphens as an option. It causes that, when a word with a hyphen is hyphenated at the hyphen, the original hyphen is at the start of the ...
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Line breaking (or hyphenation?) of references in apalike
This is a problem I encountered some time ago and I never could solve it: how can you achieve correct line-breaking or hyphenation when citing references with the apalike style?
Here is an example:
\...
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Overfull hbox - How do I fix this?
I have a line in tex which has a markup (as a part of a line) as follows:
\texttt{org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory}
This is giving a overfull \hbox warning. How do I fix this?
I am ...
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stop hyphenation for table column
I have this table
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{lLLLrr}
\hline
\textbf{type} & \textbf{author} & \textbf{...
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Correct way to generate hyphenation patterns with BibLaTeX?
What is the recommended way, to insert text into BibLaTeX databases, in order to enable LaTeX to hyphenate the entries accordingly to avoid overfull lines due to dashes in composed words?
I suppose, ...
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How to use the 'usenglishmax' hyphenation patterns from hyph-utf8? (pdfLaTeX, TeXLive, ubuntu)
I am using pdfLaTeX from TeXLive on Kubuntu 20.04. Suppose that the LaTeX document I am writing is entirely in U.S. English.
How can I use the usenglishmax hyphenation patterns (which are mentioned at ...
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How to prevent word wrap and new lines in table cells?
I have a xltabular table which is filled via script with data, so I don't really know what length the text has that is put into the table cells. Is there a function or method which can just cut off ...
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Babel Hyphenation
I have a document with many words of the form AAA+BBB that are not correctly broken apart ("hyphenated" without "hyphen") at the end of a line in a multi-column document. I was ...
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Justify long words
How can I justify text like this by for example automatic hyphenation? (which does not affect the rest of the text? If I use \linebreak it will go to the next line but not justify the prior text.
I ...
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Polyglossia package and hyphenation in second language (not the default)
Is there any global command to fix the problem of second language hyphenation ?
The code is:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt, oneside]{Thesis}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\setsansfont{...
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How to Prevent Hyphenation for Minipages but Allow It Everywhere Else
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
%\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} % To prevent hyphenation within entire document.
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\Large
\begin{minipage}{...
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How to fix the warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for (babel) the language `Portuguese'?
I am on Windows using this MikTexversion:
pdflatex --version
MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.6211 (1.40.17) (MiKTeX 2.9.6210)
Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2016 Han The Thanh
TeX is a trademark of the ...
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Hyphenation at gender stars, gender gaps, etc
Background
Some natural languages have recently seen the addition of gender neutrality emphasis. For example, in German, almost all nouns referring to occupations have a grammatically masculine and ...
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Hyphenation of a language doesn't work in TexLive
I am trying to implement hyphenation patterns for Armenian from hyph-utf8, but polyglossia doesn't recognise it with the message
Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for `...
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How to add global hyphenation rules?
I know about discretionary hyphens, \-, about \allowbreak, \nobreak as well as \hyphenation{...} and even \tracingparagraphs=1 to write hyphenations into the log-file.
Those are OK for family names or ...
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MiKTeX hyphenation not working on MacOS. (There is no hyphenation.)
I have just got my first Mac and I'm trying to setup Latex on my system. Everything seems to work fine, except that MiKTeX refuses to hyphenate words, and as a result my rows overflows the width of ...
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How to Allow Hyphenation in the Index While Forbidding It in the Rest of the Document
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} % To prevent hyphenation
\...
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Portuguese: line break at an hyphen in an explicitly hyphenated word
In Portuguese, many words are explicitly hyphenated, such as "anti-inflamatório".
According to Portuguese hyphenation rules, if the line is broken at the hyphen, another hyphen should be added to be ...
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Enable default hyphenation for body of prefixed word
Suppose the word automorphism has correct hyphenation rules, but (anti)automorphism does not (because it contains non letters).
Since (anti-) and similar prefixes are common, I’ve written a macro
\...
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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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How are hyphenation patterns written?
In my miktex folder I checked the hyph-en-us.tex file and found letter patterns written like this:
\patterns{
.ach4
.ad4der
.af1t
...
}
What do these dots and numbers mean?
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hyphenating inline verbatim text at underscore [duplicate]
I can hyphenate inline verbatim text at a ':'; however, I want to hyphenate inline verbatim text at an underscore '_', but I can not find a solution. The MWE is as follows.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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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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Is it possible to disable hyphenation only for TOC?
I want to keep hyphenation across the document but to be disabled in TOC
This code is not working
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@tocrmarg}{2.55em plus1fil}
\makeatother
Here is the MWE
\documentclass[...
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Hyphenation Issue with ArnoPro and polyglossia
Does anyone understand why hyphenation seems not to work as expected with Arno Pro set as main font? If you try the code with Garamond Premr Pro everything works as expected.
Thank you in advance for ...
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too much hyphenations at the edge of columns
I am using a journal template for preparing my paper. The problem is that it creates a lot of hyphenated words at the edge of the columns in the pdf file. The following figure shows an example column:
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faulty german hyphenation in XeLaTeX
As you see in the picture beneath some words, not only "Gegenüberstellung" the hyphenation is not correct, at the right site of the paper. Unfortunately the different questions relating this ...
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Kpathsee looking for file "babel-xelatex.cfg"
Im working on compiling a format file using a XeLaTeX engine and It is trying to fetch a file babel-xelatex.cfg which is not found anywhere in MacTeX.
It seems that upon initialisation "hyphen....
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URL in bibliography won't hyphenate causing overfull warning
I've provided a MWE below. I'm trying to hyphenate the URL in bibliography page however solutions given from multiple google searches lead me to nothing. So here I am asking for help. Thank you in ...
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How to get rid of lone `/` in URL of a citation in Bibliography without deleting it?
How do I group the lone / at the line above? or make it look prettier in any other way without deleting the said /? I've provided a MWE below. If it helps, I use latexmk with -pdflua which basically ...
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Super Script and Hyphenation Problems
I am using LuaLaTeX compiler with KOMA-scrbook class.
I need to define a command with superscript text, but I do not know why LaTeX disable the hyphenation of words with superscript text.
\...
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How to avoid the consecutive hyphenation in a para
i am getting the consecutive hyphen at the line end in a paragraph (more than 5 consecutive hyphen), in a two column format, I already used \doublehyphendemerits=10000, but not solved the issue.
how ...