Re: Manual hyphenation

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Elliot Clifton wrote:
> On 2007-05-23 17:28 -400
> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
>> \document\-ation
> 
> I've tried that. Unfortunately it only seems to work if hyphenation turned on.

You would have to redefine one of the core utility macros to get
this to work.  I wrote a small extension for you that does not
need manual intervention. It only hyphenates words that are longer
than 8 characters. Here is the actual code that should go to the
environment file (or the preamble section):


%D A small extension that creates an align type that only hyphenates
%D long words.

\unprotect
\startvariables all
    lesshyphenation: lesshyphenation
\stopvariables

\def\lesshyphens
     {\lefthyphenmin=4 \righthyphenmin=5 }

\installalign \v!lesshyphenation {\lesshyphens}

%D The next two lines implement 'align=lesshyphenation' as an option
%D for \type{\framed} etc.

\setvalue{\@@ragged@@command\v!lesshyphenation}
     {\appendtoks\lesshyphens \to\everyraggedcommand}

\protect
%D done.

And the usage is like so:

   \setupalign[lesshyphenation]

   ... documentation ...

Best wishes, Taco




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