hyphenation

Detecting syllables in a word

I need to find a fairly efficient way to detect syllables in a word. E.g., invisible -> in-vi-sib-le There are some syllabification rules that could be used: V CV VC CVC CCV CCCV CVCC *where V is a vowel and C is a consonant. e.g., pronunciation (5 Pro-nun-ci-a-tion; CV-CVC-CV-V-CVC) I've tried few methods, among which were using...

How to represent class names in LaTeX?

Hi, what do you see as best way of presenting class names in LaTeX documents (writing about a piece of software). I'm currently using \texttt (monospaced typewrite font) which otherwise works fine but my class names end up goind "over" the margins. So, I'm asking for either an alternative (good-looking) way of representing the class...

TeX Hyphenation patterns : What do they represent

If you scroll down this page a bit, you'd see UK English hyphenation patterns like: \patterns{ % just type <return> if you're not using INITEX .ab4i .ab3ol .ace4 .acet3 .ach4 .ac5tiva What do these patterns like .ab4i mean? ...

What's the opposite of a nbsp?

A &nbsp; character is a space which doesn't allow for line breaking. <p>lorem ipsum here&nbsp;are&nbsp;some&nbsp;words and so on</p> | lorem ipsum | | here are some words and so | | on | What's the opposite of that? That is, a character which is NOT rendered as a space, but CAN be used for line ...

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

Hi there! In my report, I'm writing some class names or variable names inside of a paragraph, and I want these names to be rendered in a monospace font. Example: This is my class name: \texttt{baseAdminConfiguration}. Sometimes when the single word inside of the \texttt tag is rendered at the end of a line, the word does not go to t...

how to get latex to hyphenate a word that contains a dash ?

In a latex document I'm writing, I get an overfull hbox warning because of the word "multi-disciplinary", which happens to be rendered at the end of a line. I can get rid of this particular warning by changing it into multi-discipli\-nary, but the same problem will happen elsewhere, since this word is used a lot in the paper. I'd like...

MikTeX 2.8 doesn't add hyphenation support for pdfLaTeX

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:...

Anyone able to translate sIFR into AS3 (for hyphenation and with the help of a converter)?

One thing asked for a lot with sIFR is hyphenation. Now I almost solved it with integrating Hyphenator.as http://vis4.net/blog/2010/05/as3-hyphenation/. The only problem is that Hyphenator.as is written in AcionScript 3, while sIFR is in ActionScript 2. I found an AS2 to AS3 converter www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2006/11/as2-to-as3-c...

How can I spell check words ignoring optional hyphens?

I am using a RTE (TinyMce) for text creation in a browser. The RTE is inserting non-visible optional hyphens (code: '' or '\u00ad') into words of a minimum length for hyphenation as the user writes. The problem i got now is to find a spellchecker that is able to check my words even though they consist not only of letters but additionall...

Detecting syllables in a word containing non-alphabetical characters

I'm implementing readability test and have implemented simple algorithm of detecting sylables. Detecting sequences of vowels I'm counting them in words, for example word "shoud" contains one sequence of vowels which is 'ou'. Before I'm counting them i'm removing suffixes like -les, -e, -ed (for example word "like" contains one syllable b...