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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Hyphenation in German
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:19:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5DD3198-34A3-4C22-979E-E24D52A072A4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A4EA7E.5090004@mmnetz.de>


Am 15.11.2012 um 14:13 schrieb H. Özoguz <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>:

> Hi there,
> 
> I always use
> 
> \mainlanguage [de]
> 
> But still, many breakings and stretches are ugly, because context does not know how to hyphenate a word. Of course I can add \- to help, but is there a way to add a bigger list of german words (like DUDEN has) or something like that, not not have to add \- all the time?

You can add your own list with hyphenation patterns with

\startexceptions[de]
Trenn-fuge
Binde-strich
…
\stopexceptions

To break words at “-” and "/” signs add \setbreakpoints[compound] to your document.

Wolfgang
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-15 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-15 13:13 "H. Özoguz"
2012-11-15 13:26 ` Peter Münster
2012-11-15 20:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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