Latex manual hyphenation

In order to use the hyphenation in LaTeX, set \usepackage [ngerman] {babel} in the preamble. So, the automatic hyphenation in the program is enabled, and you need do nothing more. With the command \- insert a manual hyphenation. You can use the command as follows ; The problem (as KennyTM noted) is that LaTeX won't hyphenate words with dashes in them. TeX won’t hyphenate less than \lefthyphenmin characters after the start of a word, nor less than \righthyphenmin before the end of a word; thus it won’t hyphenate a word shorter than the sum of the two minima, at all. For example, since the minima are 2 and 3 for English, TeX won’t hyphenate a word shorter than 5 letters long, if it believes the word to be English.  · Hyphenation Edit. LaTeX hyphenates words whenever necessary. Hyphenation rules will vary for different languages. LaTeX only supports English by default, so if you want to have correct hyphenation rules for your desired language, see Internationalization.

LaTeX is good at hyphenating and usually finds most of the correct hyphenation points, while almost never using an incorrect one. The \-command is for exceptional cases. For example, LaTeX does not ordinarily hyphenate words containing a hyphen. This document is an unofficial reference manual for LATEX, a document preparation system, version of July This manual was originally translated from www.doorway.ru va in the VMS Help Library. The pre-translation version was written by George D. Greenwade of Sam Houston State University. The L ATEX version was written by Stephen Gilmore. will dot robertson at latex-project dot org /04/22 Abstract The hyphenat package can be used to either disable hyphenation through-out a document or to enable automatic hyphenation within words that in-clude analphabetic characters. It also provides for hyphenatable monospaced fonts. Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 The hyphenat package 2.

The KOMA-Script manual even recommends to do so and explains the reason. BTW: \\ is not a paragraph and should not be used instead of. Deshalb habe ich mit hyphenation{} eine entsprechende Umbruchdefinition vorgenommen -- doch leider TeX und LaTeX, Fragen und Antworten - TeXwelt logo. The problems of automatic compound word and discretionary hyphenation in TEX are discussed. At present, such hyphenation points have to be marked manually.