On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:53:10PM +0000, Victor wrote: > I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still > I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the > Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean, > what packages are needed, what setting and so on).
look for the babel package, if your courageous that is. > Is there anybody out there able to gimme plain straightforward > instructions? plain and simple, here it goes:) 1) to create a format file with italian hyphenation patterns you'll have to run texconfig as root, select HYPHEN, select latex, search for italian, remove the leading %, save the file. If things are like the should be, your machine will be busy for a wile generating the new format file 2) in your latex file give italian as option in your documentstyle line like in: \documentstyle[12pt, italian]{book} -- groetjes, carel