MikTeX 2.8 doesn't add hyphenation support for pdfLaTeX

Question

I'm using MikTeX 2.8 edition, and installed the hungarian language support and hyphenation files. Using the standard LaTeX command they work fine, but when I try to use pdfLaTeX, they don't get loaded and I get the

(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\magyar.ldf
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\babel.def)
Package babel /b/c12/cWarning:/b/c0/c No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `Magyar'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

message. Using latex it works fine:

(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg)
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\magyar.ldf
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\babel.def)))

I tried updating the FNDB and the Formats, but to no avail.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I have the same problem with MiKTeX 2.8, babel, pdflatex and language "portuguese". Regular latex works fine.

Went back to MiKTeX 2.7 and the problem doesn't happen.

Answer 2

Removing MikTeX 2.8 and cleaning the registry by hand, then reinstalling it solved the problem. (simply removing and reinstalling didn't solve it)

Answer 3

I had the same problem in Windows 7. I installed MikTeX and configured the hyphenation languages under administrator account and when I started to use pdflatex under my own account, it turned out that it did not detect the languages that I had added in the MikTex Settings (Admin) application.

The solution was to run MikTex Settings under my own account (i.e. the non-Admin program in Start Menu) and click the button "Update Formats".

Answer 4

First find out language.dat file under your installation. Then find there a string like %magyar bla-bla-bla, remove comment (% mark), or, if there is no such line in that file - add it. Bla-bla-bla stands for the exact name of file with hyphenation table, you should google of how does that called.

Then run "update formats" from the miktex options menu, BUT - do that for the Options, and NOT for Options (Admin) menu.

Good luck!

Answer 5

I tried the recipy by Zorkus but it failed in Win 7 and in Win XP also. It goes "The Miktex configuration utility failed. Do you want to see the transcript?" After yes: "miktex-makefmt: Unknown engine: etex initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. initexmf.EXE: Data: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin\miktex-makefmt.exe" That was so smooth with previous version...

Answer 6

@Jaan - Your answer did the trick. I was on the edge of deleting MikTeX-2.8 but now it's working fine. Dutch is loaded and used. I'm very happy.