On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, the wise Helge Hafting spoke, and said: > Marco Beishuizen wrote: > > > > I don't seem to get LyX to hyphenate correctly. In texconfig I edited > > "language.dat" (and enabled dutch hyphenation), and did a rehash. In LyX I > > did a reconfigure. But when I view the DVI output it doesn't hyphenate > > correctly. In the Latex log I should see that Babel and hyphenation > > patterns are loaded, but it isn't there. > > > > Does anyone know what to do to get hyphenation to work for my language? > > Take a look at layout->document. Make sure the language setting > for the document is correct. The texconfig stuff only makes dutch > hypenation > _possible_. You need to select the language to actually use it, > as lyx lets you write documents in many languages at once. > > If you write mostly dutch documents, use "save as document defaults" > so you won't have to select your language for every document. > > Helge Hafting
My language settings in LyX are correct. After a lot of searching I found a website where someone experienced the same problems I have. The solution described is to edit the language.dat files (there are two of them), and after that you have to run "/usr/local/bin/fmtutil --all" to rebuild all the hyphenation files. The website is: http://members.lycos.nl/wpaesen/tex.php Weird this isn't mentioned in the User's Guide. Marco -- The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.
