LyX ⇒ Problem with German Hyphenation

[amplifier]

Hi everyone,

LyX is doing some strange hyphenation of German words... how can I fix that? I just found some non-working suggestions in google

Thanks a lot for your help!
Amp

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Amp,

perhaps tell us some more information, such as

• what you're actually doing, code example,
• which packages do you use - the multilingual babel package for example?
• which hyphenation is strange: which word is hyphenated how
• what google suggestions do you refer to
• what does it mean they don't work (errors, warnings, effects, changed hyphenation or not)

For now, I would suggest, add to your preamble

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\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

or choose babel with ngerman (Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung) in a LyX menu or setting, respectively, and have a look at the babel manual regarding german hyphenation tools (Trennhilfen).

Stefan

[amplifier]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your help!

My preamble is:

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\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[headsepline, ilines]{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\ihead{}
\ohead{\pagemark}
\chead{}
\cfoot{}

Adding your suggestion isn't working.. unfortunately. Words like "einer" are hyphenated as "ein-er" (what is wrong).

Google suggested:

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\usepackage[french,ngerman]{babel}

Funnily the hyphenation works perfectly after that, but all my figures and tables appear in french. Using:

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\selectlanguage{ngerman}

on the first page of my document, brings back the german names for tabels and figures, but the hyphenation is messed up again

cheers,
Amp

PS

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\usepackage[german,ngerman]{babel}

isn't working either

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use \showhyphens to check hyphenation:

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\showhyphens{einer}

This works fine and wraps ist ei-ner:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\parbox{0.5cm}{ist einer}
\end{document}

I recommend also to add T1 font encoding:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

This supports hyphenation in words with umlauts, for example.

Stefan

[amplifier]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your quick reply!

The hyphenation is working better after I added both of your suggestions. I will teach Lyx all other words with the /hyphenation{} command

Have a good night!
Amp