[Tex/LaTex] hyphenation for language ngerman doesn’t work in TeXnicCenter/MiKTeX

germanhyphenationpdftex

Hello everyone!

I have a problem writing my master's thesis and I hope someone can help.
I am using TeXnicCenter 2.02 in combination with MiKTeX 2.9.4248.
The Header of my document looks like this: 

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} 

\usepackage{amsmath} 

\usepackage{amsthm} 

\usepackage{fancyhdr} 

\usepackage{titlesec} 

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 

\usepackage{hyphsubst} 

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}



\begin{document}



    Text of my document... 




\end{document}

Unfortunately the hyphenation is incorrect. For example the German word "Optimierungsproblem" at the end of one line is separated to
"Optimierungsprob-
lem"
instead of the correct way
"Optimierungspro-
blem"

and there is one Warning with the message:

"pdflatex > Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for the language ngerman into the Format. Please, configure your TeX System to add them and rebuild the Format. Now I will use the Patterns preloaded for \language=0 instead of Input line 42"

The Input lines 41, 42 and 43 (of the ngerman.ldf file) look like this: 

41 \ifx\l@ngerman\@undefined

42 \@nopatterns{ngerman}

43 \adddialect\l@ngerman0

The german hyphenation package is installed in MiKTeX. I've tried to find an answer in other questions and someone suggested to add the line "ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex" to the language.dat file. So I checked the language.dat file but the following lines are all included:

54 ngerman loadhyph-de-1996.tex

55 ngerman-x-2014-05-21 dehyphn-x-2014-05-21.tex

56 =ngerman-x-latest

Can anyone help me regarding this problem?
If I need to add a log file or other information, please let me know.

Best regards,
Dom

Best Answer

Some German words just cannot be hyphenated properly by the package. Especially those that consists actually of two or more words. For these words use:

\hyphenation{Ele-men-tar-ob-jek-te Op-ti-mie-rungs-pro-blem}

Seperate the words with a space character, like in the example.

Edit 1:

A full example:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage{amsthm} 
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\usepackage{titlesec} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{hyphsubst} 
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\hyphenation{Ele-men-tar-ob-jek-te Op-ti-mie-rungs-pro-blem}

\begin{document}

Text of my document... 

\end{document}

Edit 2:

See here. Sorry, it's German, but it's meant to help the author.

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