Thanks for the reply Helge, actually every single language in there was enabled. I've disabled all the non-english and danish ones. I looks like it's done the trick.
Kind regards Soren On Friday 30 September 2005 09:27, Helge Hafting wrote: > Søren O'Neill wrote: > >Hi there, > >how do I pursuade LyX (or rather LaTeX i suppose) to hyphenate using > > danish rules? > > > >I'm getting some very weird hyphenations like: p-ainful > > > >Kind regards > >Soren - Denmark (If you hadn't guessed:-) > > Two things: > 1. Set the document language to Danish. (Go into document > settings, where language is one of many options.) > > 2. Make sure your latex installation have the danish hyphenation > installed _and_ activated. It is usually not possible to activate > all language's hypentation patterns at the same time, > therefore many latex distributions only enable a few (like english, > french and german) by default. > > I have debian linux, which uses tetex. There, I run texconfig in order > to set up hyphenation patterns. You get a menu where you can select > hyphenation first, and then you select the hyphenation setup for "latex". > After that, you get to edit a file that defines which hyphentation > patterns should be available. Make sure the danish hyphenation > isn't commented out. (There should not be a percent sign in > front of the line beginning with "danish".) > > After this, save the file and quit texconfig. > > > If you don't have texconfig, look for the file named > "language.dat" which may exist in /etc/texmf/, /usr/share/texmf, > or some other place. > > Documents set up with "Danish" language should hyphenate correctly > after this. If you get tired of setting the language to "Danish" all > the time, use the "save as document default" button after changing > the language. Documents will be Danish by default after that. > > Helge Hafting -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Sygehus Fyn Lindevej 5, 5750 Ringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dskkb.dk tlf. 6362 1906 (arb.)
