> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:27:58 +0200 > From: Andreas Falkenhahn <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > > > There are 2 commands in Texinfo that help TeX hyphenate where its > > built-in wisdom fails. Read all about them in the node "@- > > @hyphenation" of the Texinfo manual. > > Thanks, but those don't really look very practical to me because AFAIU > I'd have to tell Texinfo how to hyphenate the individual German words > which is of course rather complicated in a document with about 1000 > pages. I was looking for an automated solution but apparently this is > not possible then...
You only need to do that with the words where TeX hyphenates incorrectly. Assuming you used @documentlanguage to tell Texinfo which language is your document in, TeX should already load the hyphenation rules for that language. So the failures should be rare.
