Text Formatting ⇒ Display hyphenation points

[Laurentius]

Is there a macro that takes a word as its argument and returns it with hyphens at every possible break point?

[cgnieder]

Do you want them printed in the text or do you want the information for debugging? If it's the latter:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\showhyphens{hyphenation}

\end{document}

The log says:

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[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 hy-phen-ation

Regards

[Laurentius]

Thanks! Is there no way of doing it from the command line? I mean: run xelatex and type something like \showhyphensnow{analysis} and have returned ana-ly-sis. I suppose one could write a script to do it.

[cgnieder]

Sure: you can use (Xe)TeX's interactive mode:

1. type xetex and hit enter in the command line. You will get a ** prompt.
2. type \relax and hit enter. You will get a * prompt.
3. type \showhyphens{analysis} and hit enter. Watch TeX's response:

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   [] \tenrm anal-y-sis

4. type \bye and hit enter to leave.

Regards

[Laurentius]

That simple; fantastic. Funny hyphenation of analysis though. Thanks!

[cgnieder]

Funny hyphenation of analysis though.

Depends on the definition of funny, I guess: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analysis

Regards

[Laurentius]

I now see that this doesn't work after loading polyglossia …