[OS X TeX] latex: do not disrupt

[Bruno Voisin]

Le jeudi, 14 nov 2002, à 18:49 Europe/Paris, Stephan Hochhaus a écrit :

> How do I keep LaTeX from disrupting my words?

In (La)TeX idiom

	this is the word that should not be {disrupted}

becomes

	\hyphenation{disrupted}

to be put somewhere in your document (before writing the word 
"disrupted" itself), as opposed to

	\hyphenation{dis-rupted}

which creates the possibility of hyphenating the word at a certain 
point.

Are you sure you really want to do this? Generally (La)TeX finds 
correct hyphenations, except in a few cases (names of persons from 
other countries, for example). Assuming you use the babel package and 
choose the correct hyphenation file for your language, you should get 
no problem; even if you need to insert a few words from other 
languages, to be hyphenated differently, the babel package introduces 
the convenient command \foreignlanguage.

For example you can have a LaTeX file with the following structure:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[francais,english]{babel}

\begin{document}

\selectlanguage{french}

Texte français avec au milieu \foreignlanguage{english}{Cambridge 
University Press} et ainsi de suite.

\end{document}

Bruno Voisin

PS \mbox{disrupted} is likely to produce a word protruding in the right 
margin, whereas \hyphenation{disrupted} (to be put for example in the 
preamble of your document) should produce properly balanced lines.

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