Re: hyphenation and umlauts

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:04:17 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 08:50 PM 9/11/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> >Ahoi,
> >
> >I have the problem to declare a hyphenation of the german word
> >"Kriegsgeschädigte".
> >
> >In a posting from Hans i found something that lets me try
> >\hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\aumlaut-dig-te}
> >
> >But this runs in an error: "Wrong hyphenation..."
> >
> >What is the correct way?
> 
> [ i assume that you use an 8 bit encoding ]

yes, i use il1

> the aumlaut is not an 8 bit char, bit a composed character, where the " is 
> lower than normal, instead use:
> 
> \adiaeresis

Thanks, but
\hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis-dig-te}

gives
! Improper \hyphenation will be flushed.
\dobuildtextaccent #1#2->{
                          \let \char \normalaccent #1\let \char \normalchar #2}
l.5 \hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis
                                         -dig-te}
?

Any hints?

Jens