[Tex/LaTex] German hyphenation does not work

babelclassicthesisgermanhyphenation

My babel configuration includes ngerman and english …

\documentclass[
oneside, openright, titlepage,
dottedtoc, numbers=noenddot,
headinclude, footinclude=true,
cleardoublepage=empty, abstractoff,
BCOR=5mm, paper=a4, fontsize=11pt,
ngerman,
american,
draft
]
{scrreprt}

\PassOptionsToPackage{utf8}{inputenc}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}

\begin{document}

% Disable paragraph indentation.
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

9. Wie lange benötigen die Personen für die Erfassung/Aktualisierung
der Daten vor Ort und bei der Nachbearbeitung im Büro?\\

10. Verwenden Sie ein kommerzielles Hardware- oder Software-Produkt
für die Verwaltung\\

\end{document}

…, however, the hyphenation seems to be not working correctly, as I can see in draft mode.

German hypenation

Questions:

What do I need to configure in order to use auto-hyphenation?
Side question: Why do I need to add \\ to get an empty line between 9. and 10.?

Best Answer

You have to select the language that is used. So add \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of German text and \selectlanguage{english}in front of english text.

The hyphenation is not working because LaTeX has problems to hyphenate Erfassung/Aktualisierung correctly. Insert (you are using babel) "- to mark the places a hyphenation can occur.

Use \begin{enumerate} to build well typesetted enumerations.

I added these thing in your MWE:

\documentclass[
oneside, openright, titlepage,
dottedtoc, numbers=noenddot,
headinclude, footinclude=true,
cleardoublepage=empty, abstractoff,
BCOR=5mm, paper=a4, fontsize=11pt,
ngerman,
american,
draft
]
{scrreprt}

\PassOptionsToPackage{utf8}{inputenc}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}

\begin{document}

% Disable paragraph indentation.
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\selectlanguage{ngerman}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Wie lange benötigen die Personen für die Erfassung/Aktuali"-sierung 
    der Daten vor Ort und bei der Nachbearbeitung im Büro?
  \item Verwenden Sie ein kommerzielles Hardware- oder Software-Produkt
    für die Verwaltung
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

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If you load the babel package with the [ngerman] option -- I'm taking a wild guess here that your document's language is German... -- LaTeX should have no problem hyphenating the word "universeller". See the MWE (minimum working example) below, which uses the LuaLaTeX format just to be able to use the nifty showhyphens package to indicate all hyphenation points with thin red vertical bars.

For sure do not place the word universeller into an \mbox unless you want to disable hyphenation. And don't provide the instruction \hyphenation{universeller} unless you, again, want to disable its hyphenation.

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\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Latin Modern Roman}
\usepackage{showhyphens,csquotes,babel}
\begin{document}
universeller

"universeller" \ --- This is a mistake!

``universeller'' --- U.S.-style quotation marks

\enquote{universeller} --- German-style quotation marks
\end{document}

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