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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/fixltxhyph/README b/macros/latex/contrib/fixltxhyph/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c2cedbc9ee --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/fixltxhyph/README @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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
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