From 0eec027f55e58a5136a96a14884c37adb631d486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Vermeer Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:28:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document enabling hyphenation for minority languages in LaTeX. git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@9332 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- lib/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/doc/ChangeLog b/lib/doc/ChangeLog index ab4e9cbb50..1ec1b263ec 100644 --- a/lib/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/lib/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-12-02 Martin Vermeer + + * UserGuide.lyx: document use of texconfig for + enabling hyphenation for minority languages + 2004-11-22 Jürgen Spitzmüller * Extended.lyx: document second OptionalArg in memoir. diff --git a/lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx b/lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx index b5ea06f22e..3cfe3e4cc3 100644 --- a/lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx +++ b/lib/doc/UserGuide.lyx @@ -11238,18 +11238,53 @@ Those of you reading this from within LyX will see no difference, though there is one in the printed version. \layout Standard -One last note about hyphenation --- LyX automatically breaks up words and +One more note about hyphenation --- LyX automatically breaks up words and inserts hyphens in English text. - (Actually, it's LaTeX that does this, and it will also hyphenate words - in + The words won't be hyphenated until you generate the final output. +\layout Standard + +Actually, it's LaTeX that does this, and it will also hyphenate words in + \emph on some \emph default - other languages.) The words won't be hyphenated until you generate the final - output. + other languages. + To know whether (PDF)LaTeX hyphenates for +\emph on +your +\emph default + language, look at any log file produced by a LaTeX run: it will say +\layout Quote + + +\family typewriter +Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, + nohyphenation, loaded. \layout Standard -If, for some reason, LaTeX can't break a word correctly, you can set hyphenation +This tells you that, e.g., if you write in Finnish, you're out of luck. + Study (for the teTeX distribution of LaTeX) the utilities +\family typewriter +texconfig +\family default + and +\family typewriter +fmtutil +\family default + in order to switch hyphenation on for your language by ''uncommenting'' + the relevant line in a file typically named +\family typewriter +language.dat +\family default +. + Sorry for the inconvenience. +\layout Standard + +If, for whatever reason, LaTeX +\emph on +still +\emph default + can't break a word correctly (e.g., a compound word), you can set hyphenation points manually. This is done with the menu item \family sans -- 2.39.5