On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> for a given document, I need to use XeTeX (OTF-font). LyX claims in the
> protocol that:
>> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
>> nohyphenation, ge rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, basque,
>> ukenglish, usenglishmax, frenc h, german, ngerman, swissgerman,
>> loaded.
>
> But when proof-reading, I noticed that the german hyphenation patterns
> seem to be rather incomplete, for example Fre-itag dazwis-chen etc.
>
> I know about the use of \hyphenation in the preamble, but I would like
> to define my additional hyphenation patterns in a central place, so
> that they get used for all my documents (with XeTeX).
>
> Can anyone tell me, which file (in texmf-local?) I need to edit?
You can simply put your additional patterns into a file anywhere in your own
user space and call it in the preamble of any document. For example, suppose
you name the file "myhyph.tex" and you put it into a directory called "LaTeX",
which you create as a subdirectory to your "Documents" directory. Then simply
add the command
\input{/Users/wolfgang/Documents/LaTeX/myhyph.tex}
to the preamble of your documents (Document -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble).
And, of course, if you are not using OS X, you'll need to adjust the details of
your path accordingly (e.g., under Windows, use \ instead of /, specify a drive
letter, etc).
I think that's the sort of thing you had in mind.
Chris Menzel
