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New CTAN Package: fixltxhyph

Date: January 16, 2012 7:07:16 PM CET
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 Claudio Beccari submitted the fixltxhyph package. Summary description: Small fix to let TeX hyphenate correctly word that contain partially emphasized substrings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This little package fixed the problem of of TeX missing to hyphenate letter strings, that TeX assumes to be words, that include an apostrophe followed by an emphasis command; this problem arises in Catalan French and Italian; hopefully soon also in Romansh. The cause of the problem is not the apostrophe, but the font change in the middle of the string.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fixltxhyph . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fixltxhyph (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

fixltxhyph – Allow hyphenation of partially-emphasised substrings

The package fixes the problem of failing to hyphenate letter strings that seem (to ) to be words, but which are followed by an apostrophe and then an emphasis command. The cause of the problem is not the apostrophe, but the font change in the middle of the string.

The problem arises in Catalan, French, Italian and Romansh.

Packagefixltxhyph
Version0.4
Copyright2011 Claudio Beccari
MaintainerClaudio Beccari

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