On Friday 21 September 2007 14:48:08 Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Hello, > > This probably is really a newbie question but there it goes: how do I > set the Portuguese hyphenation on? > > I've already set up the Portuguese language (with an utf8 encoding, > because of BibTeX) on the document settings dialogue, but words are > still getting broken in the wrong places. > > Thanks for your help! > > Roberto
It depends on the latex distribution you are using. In older distribution not all patterns of language hyphenation were used due to the memory layout of tex. That meant that portuguese was not one of the used by default languages. :-) For modern distributions that should not be a problem. To see this I have created a tex file with a single line: \relax This is what latex was to say about it: $ latex teste.tex This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./teste.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded. ) -- José Abílio
