Hi!
In Finnish, there are a lot of situations where one writes a hyphen
in the beginning of a word, after a word or between two parts of a
compound word even when the word fits completely on a single line.
As I undesrtand it, LaTeX doesn't by default hyphenate these word
any further than the hyphen I've typed (forced). I can override this
feature by adding a double quote (") before the hyphen (in LyX, "-
written in TeX mode instead of a regular hyphen).
My problem is that
1) Writing "- in TeX mode takes time and effort when compared to
writing a single hyphen (which I'm of course rather used to doing), and
2) I never remember to do this and end up with overfull lines and less
severe imperfections that I may or may not notice before it's too late.
So, is there a way (adding something to the preamble, tweaking a knob
somewhere in LyX settings etc) to make LyX substitute all my hyphens
(but not minuses in math mode, and I guess also --'s and ---'s) as the
TeX mode string "- upon conversion to .tex or just simply make LaTeX
hyphenate all words the way it ought to, without turning -'s into "-'s?
Alternatively, is it be possible to redefine the action of the hyphen
key so that it would place the TeX mode string and come out of TeX mode
while typing normally (and how would I type a regular hyphen in that
case)?
Janne
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