[texhax] Hyphenation

David Roderick angel_ov_north at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Jan 15 13:20:29 CET 2008


texhax-request at tug.org writes:


>
> "justanotheradress at gmail.com" <justanotheradress at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I spent quite a while in searching for a handy solution to specify the
>> area where LaTeX shouldn't hyphenate words - with no luck. 
>
> Hmmm.  I hope you looked at:  
>
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphoff
>
> Most of the methods discussed in the FAQ have paragraphs as their
> minimum "areas", so depending on the extent of your regions, you
> may be left with just one method: select language "nohyphenation".
>
> -- 
> Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca
>

What about something like 
{\catcode`\ \active%
\gdef\getword#1{\hbox{#1}}%
\gdef\ {\catcode`\ active%
\getword}%
}
\catcode`\ \active

-- 
from 
David Roderick


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