Re: [help-texinfo] German hyphenation

[Andreas Falkenhahn]

On 20.06.2018 at 18:50 Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:29:38 +0200
>> From: Andreas Falkenhahn <address@hidden>

>> I've noticed some strange hyphenation when using texi2pdf with German texts. 
>> For example, the German word "Dateinamens" is hyphenated like this:

>> Datein-amens

>> That is not correct. It should be one of Da-teinamens, Datei-namens or 
>> Dateina-mens. Is there a way to make texi2pdf use correct German hyphenation 
>> or will I have to live with this?

> There are 2 commands in Texinfo that help TeX hyphenate where its
> built-in wisdom fails.  Read all about them in the node "@-
> @hyphenation" of the Texinfo manual.

Thanks, but those don't really look very practical to me because AFAIU
I'd have to tell Texinfo how to hyphenate the individual German words
which is of course rather complicated in a document with about 1000
pages. I was looking for an automated solution but apparently this is
not possible then...

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Best regards,
 Andreas Falkenhahn                            mailto:address@hidden