I know that hyphenating words with accents produces an error in LaTeX. So what can I do in such an occasion? I am facing a problem like that in my text where I use the Linux Libertine O font as the main font. The character is a greek alpha with an accent.
[Tex/LaTex] Hyphenation of words with accents
hyphenation
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I am not too sure if there is a best practice, but here are two approaches.
The first method uses the url command to automatically hyphenate at certain points such as for example dots. The second one uses a discretionary (with or without a hyphen). Whatever you choose, I am sure that you will need to give TeX a helping hand, that is you cannot avoid doing some manual editing in the end.
In the example I colored the word and used a libertine family font.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{geometry,xcolor,url}
\usepackage{libertine}
\geometry{paperwidth=130mm, paperheight=60mm,
textwidth=95mm, textheight=50mm}
\def\+{\discretionary{}{-}{}}
\def\textinline#1{{\usefont{T1}{fxb}{m}{n}\selectfont\textcolor{purple}{\url{#1}}}}
\def\ttextinline#1{{\usefont{T1}{fxb}{m}{n}\selectfont\textcolor{purple}{#1}}}
\begin{document}
Java programmers tend like to use very long variable names as compared to other
languages. A string such as \textinline{this.class.VariableName}
will get split rather than produce an overfull box?
Java programmers tend like to use very long variable names as compared to other
languages. A string such as \ttextinline{this.classVari\+ableName}
will get split rather than produce an overfull box?
\end{document}
This is a tough problem with pdflatex. You can't use Greek letters in \hyphenation, because they are really treated as if they were commands that eventually instruct TeX to typeset the corresponding letter.
Such a problem should be reported to the maintainers of the hyphenation patterns, that can be reached through the mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-hyphen
For solving the problem at hand, one has to see what character slots are occupied by the characters when a Greek font is used. This correspondence turns out:
- ε =
0x65 - ί =
0xD0 - ν =
0x6E - α =
0x61 - ι =
0x69
Here's the complete table:
So we have to use TeX's internal mechanism for representing arbitrary characters, that is ^^xy, where x and y are hexadecimal digits (lowercase for letters abcdef).
There is another problem, though: the utf8 or utf8x options to inputenx make some of these characters active (which is how the Greek letters on your screen are transformed into glyphs to be typeset).
Well, this is the final concoction; the \detokenize command avoids the characters being interpreted in a special way. At the end I typeset the word in a zero width \parbox, so TeX will show all feasible hyphenation points.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,openright]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[a4paper,inner=3.5cm,outer=2.5cm]{geometry}
%%% This is better than `utf8x`
\usepackage[LGRx,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenx}
%%% Comment the two lines above and uncomment the line below for using `utf8x`
%\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenx}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
%%% Use Greek hyphenation rules
\begin{hyphenrules}{greek}
\hyphenation{\detokenize{^^65^^d0-^^6e^^61^^69}}
\end{hyphenrules}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[tight]{subfigure}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}
\parbox{0pt}{\hspace{0pt}είναι}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Assuming that the only hyphenation point you want in "μεταευριστικός" is after "μετα", then the following (in XeLaTeX) will work:
The
\parbox{1pt}{\hspace...}is just in order to force XeTeX to do all possible hyphenations.Note that the
\hyphenationcommand is language dependent, so you have to state hyphenation exceptions in the proper language environment. If you use only one language or the exceptions are only for the main language, the\hyphenationdeclaration can be put after\begin{document}.Without the
\hyphenationdeclaration, the result would have been