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+FixLtxHyph v.0.
+
+
+FixLtxHyph.sty is a small extension that allows to "correct' a small glitch
+in hyphenating "words" that are partially emphasized.
+This happens very frequently in languages such as Catalan, French, Italian,
+Romansh, Friulan, and other where articles and articulated preposition undergo vocalic
+elision before a word that starts with a vowel: example "della eleganza"
+becomes "dell'eleganza" after vocalic elision.
+Now if "eleganza" is emphasized as in "dell'\emph{eleganza}" the literal
+string that TeX sees as a word includes the apostrophe, and this is fine
+in those languages where the apostrophe is set up for proper hyphenation,
+but it also includes a font change; therefore TeX does not hyphenate the
+whole string, while it has no problems when hyphenating the same word without
+emphasis: "del-l'e-le-gan-za".
+
+This small package works fine with both pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX; it has been
+tested with the five languages listed above; at the moment of writing
+Romansh and Friulan are not among the languages that are being dealt with by pdfLaTeX
+and XeLaTeX, but soon hopefully they will.
+
+The single FixLtxHyph.dtx file is auto extracting; if you process it with
+pdfLaTeX you get both the documentation file in PDF format and the .sty file.
+
+After extraction move the files, as usual, in the three homonymous folders
+latex/fixltxhtph/ rooted in source/, doc/, and tex/ respectively.
+
+Claudio Beccari 2012
+Author maintained
+claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com \ No newline at end of file