On 2012-09-14, Heinrich W Puschmann wrote: > Dear Developers,
> I am using LyX Version 2.0.0 with Ubuntu 11.4 (will soon be switchinig > to Ubuntu 12.4). > I need to define hyphenation patterns of my own, in order to test > nonstandardized non-English language features. I know how to define the > patterns, but I cannot include them in the preamble because, according > to the error message, "patterns can be loaded only by INITEX". I > searched the included help document, but apparently that question is > not worried about, while it is implicitly assumed that the list of > covered languages will be sufficient for all users. > What is the correct way of overwriting the default hyphenation pattern > by a pattern generated by oneself? Can I do that within LyX, do I have > to use LaTeX directly, or do I have to revert to plain TeX? This depends. If you have a set of patterns generated with patgen, then inclusion of them is indeed not "LyX stuff" but requires a LaTeX re-initialisation. You will need to browse LaTeX documentation and/or ask at a TeX user list or consult a local "texpert". OTOH, if there are only few to-be-hyphenated words (less than the ca. 500000 words in the list to generate the German patterns), you can create a file with a \hyphenation list and include this from Document>Settings>LaTeX preamble. Günter
