Re: Hyphenation

[Jürgen H . Havix]

Yes, thank you, this would be the obvious solution. But I
did not know that such a file exists, at least I could not
find it in the user's guide. Maybe it would be a good idea,
to mention it in the section about hyphenation?
George


>> Of course the solution was to write @OneCol, but i ask the
>> question if you would find it reasonable to prohibit a word
>> from hyphenation at any other syllable, if it contains a
>> "&-", but could not be hyphenated because of the layout?
>
> It sounds reasonable, but I believe I know a better solution.
> Lout's hyphenation files contain an optiona "exceptions"
> section, where you can override the hyphenation of any word
> by saying explicitly there what you want for that word.  So
> I think it would be better to add your word to the exceptions
> list, then you and everyone else can forget about it forever.
>
> The German hyphenation file is $(LOUTLIB)/hyph/german.lh.
> It currently contains no exceptions, but you can see some
> examples of exceptions in $(LOUTLIB)/hyph/english.lh, and
> there is nothing to stop you adding some to german.lh,
> deleting the adjacent packed hyphenation file, german.lp,
> and running.
>
> If after all this you want to propose a change to the
> german.lh file in the Lout release, post your suggestion
> to the list, and if no-one objects I'll put it in.
>
> Jeff
>