Re: [help-texinfo] German hyphenation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:27:58 +0200
> From: Andreas Falkenhahn <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> > There are 2 commands in Texinfo that help TeX hyphenate where its
> > built-in wisdom fails.  Read all about them in the node "@-
> > @hyphenation" of the Texinfo manual.
> 
> Thanks, but those don't really look very practical to me because AFAIU
> I'd have to tell Texinfo how to hyphenate the individual German words
> which is of course rather complicated in a document with about 1000
> pages. I was looking for an automated solution but apparently this is
> not possible then...

You only need to do that with the words where TeX hyphenates
incorrectly.  Assuming you used @documentlanguage to tell Texinfo
which language is your document in, TeX should already load the
hyphenation rules for that language.  So the failures should be rare.