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Document enabling hyphenation for minority languages in LaTeX.

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2004-12-02 Martin Vermeer <martin.vermeer@hut.fi>
* UserGuide.lyx: document use of texconfig for
enabling hyphenation for minority languages
2004-11-22 Jürgen Spitzmüller <j.spitzmueller@gmx.de>
* Extended.lyx: document second OptionalArg in memoir.

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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 <v3.7h> 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