hyphenex
Provides specialized hyphenation pattern exceptions for American English text, improving word-breaking accuracy in typeset documents.
Overview
Enhances the quality of text layout by incorporating expert-curated hyphenation exceptions published in TUGboat journal articles. This specialized resource ensures more accurate and linguistically appropriate word breaks in American English documents.
- Includes regularly updated hyphenation patterns based on expert linguistic analysis.
- Particularly valuable for professional publishing, academic works, and documents requiring precise typography.
- Offers tools for converting published hyphenation data into usable exception files.
- Helps avoid awkward or incorrect word breaks that might occur with standard hyphenation rules.
Getting Started
The hyphenex package is a collection of hyphenation exception files for US English, not a LaTeX package that you include directly with \usepackage. These exceptions are typically incorporated into your TeX distribution's hyphenation patterns.
No special setup is required in your LaTeX documents to use these hyphenation exceptions, as they are automatically applied when you use US English as your document language:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
If you need to add custom hyphenation exceptions to your document, use the \hyphenation command in your preamble:
\hyphenation{man-u-script man-u-scripts}