[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I do have a set of problems: first \"political corrected\" person-
> definitions:
> eg. instead of \"Probanden\" -> \"ProbandInnen\"
> This is a common method to change male-\"endings\" of a word into a
> \"plural-femal\" version... -> I have manually set the hyphenation points
> for these words as TeX tried to break them at \"ProbandInn-en\" which
> sounds really awful ;-) (especially as this would also cause new
> \"political correctness\" issues...

I guess the correct hyphenation is \hyphenation{Pro-ban-dIn-nen} (as awful
as it looks).

> The other problem concerns breaking up small words like \"also\": while it
> might be logically correct -> it is not a good way to break something like
> \" bla bla (also bla bla).\" into \"bla bla (al- newline so bla bla).
> 
> Is there a way to stop hypenathion for those small words?
> 
> And what about all names and surnames? Its a mess to see \"Pe-ter\"
> instead of \"Peter\" ;-)

\hyphenation{also Peter}

> Do i really have to add all this stuff into the preamble?
> Isn\'t there an easier way to do this??

I have defined a global file lexikon.tex, which I have saved where TeX can
find it (texmf tree). Then I \input{lexikon} in the preamble.

> Especially as I do have a \"master\" document with front-,main- and
> backmatter as \"inculdes\" of other lyx-files -> it is no good way alway
> to switch back to the \"master\" document to open its Document settings,
> scroll down to Preamble and so on...

Just input the file in the child docs too..

> It would be more easy to paste all these special hyphenations into a
> stupid textfile...

exactly.

> And wouldn\'t this be a nice idea to exchange those files for re-usage?

Why not?

J�rgen.




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