Re: Latex and hyphenation

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:51:15AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:53:10PM +0000, Victor wrote:
> > I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still
> > I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the
> > Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean,
> > what packages are needed, what setting and so on).
> 
> look for the babel package, if your courageous that is.
>  
> > Is there anybody out there able to gimme plain straightforward
> > instructions?
> 
> plain and simple, here it goes:)
> 
> 1) to create a format file with italian hyphenation patterns you'll
>    have to run texconfig as root, select HYPHEN, select latex, search
>    for italian, remove the leading %, save the file.
>    If things are like the should be, your machine will be busy for a
>    wile generating the new format file
  
     Also, in the preamble \hyphenation{mybigwordthatshouldn'tbebroken,
                            break-this-word-apart}

> 2) in your latex file give italian as option in your documentstyle line
>    like in:
> 
>       \documentstyle[12pt, italian]{book}

     Or, for LaTeX2e  \documentclass[...]{...}

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>