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Laurentius · Post by **Laurentius** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:52 am

How do I redefine hyphenation rules for a given language? (First: where is the file for, say, German?) The change I want to make is simple: I want to allow the replacement of “ſ” (long s) for “s”, without that affecting the rules. Is this possible, and as easy as I imagine it should be?

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Post by **localghost** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:08 am

Hyphenation patterns are located in the texmf tree. For MiKTeX you can take a look at this directory.

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C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\hyphen

Generally you can search for German hyphenation patterns on the command prompt.

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kpsewhich dehyphn.tex
kpsewhich dehypht.tex
kpsewhich dehyphtex.tex

Good luck!

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Thorsten¹

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