hyphenation

Preventing \texttt LaTeX tag from letting its content passing over the margin [closed]

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This hasn’t got much to do with \texttt. The word is simply too long, and LaTeX doesn’t know how to hyphenate it. You can tell it how to do this manually, by declaring hyphenation rules: \hyphenation{base-Admin-Configuration} The \hyphenation command may take arbitrarily many words, separated by whitespace. Alternatively, if this doesn’t the trick, you can … Read more

Is it possible to enable auto-hyphenation in HTML/CSS?

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CSS3 provides some support for this. Source: http://drublic.de/blog/css3-auto-hyphenation-for-text-elements/ You can check the w3c documentation here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/#hyphenation CSS3 adds six properties to the list of useful thing. These are: The most important one is hyphens. You can add dictionary-files with hyphenate-resource so the browser has a better chance to render your text with the right hyphenation. … Read more

What’s the opposite of a nbsp?

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You want the unicode character ZERO-WIDTH SPACE (\u200B). You can get it in HTML with ​ or ​. Explicit breaks and non-breaks: LB7 : Do not break before spaces or zero width space. LB8 : Break before any character following a zero-width space, even if one or more spaces intervene. http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/

How do I get LaTeX to hyphenate a word that contains a dash?

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The problem (as KennyTM noted) is that LaTeX won’t hyphenate words with dashes in them. Luckily, there’s a standard package (part of ncctools) that addresses that very problem, called extdash. This defines new hyphen and dash commands that do not disrupt hyphenation, and which can allow or prevent line breaks at the hyphen/dash. I prefer … Read more

Detecting syllables in a word

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Read about the TeX approach to this problem for the purposes of hyphenation. Especially see Frank Liang’s thesis dissertation Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er. His algorithm is very accurate, and then includes a small exceptions dictionary for cases where the algorithm does not work.

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