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stringprocess Instead of a parameter, you can manipulate the macro
\BabelString containing the string to be defined with \SetString. For
example, to use an expanded version of the string in the definition, write:
\AddBabelHook{myhook}{stringprocess}{%
\protected@edef\BabelString{\BabelString}}
Four events are used in hyphen.cfg, which are handled in a quite different way for
efficiency reasons – unlike the precedent ones, they only have a single hook and
replace a default definition.
everylanguage (language) Executed before patterns are loaded.
loadkernel (file) By default loads switch.def. It can be used to load a different
version of this files or to load nothing.
loadpatterns (patterns file) Loads the patterns file. Used by luababel.def.
loadexceptions (exceptions file) Loads the exceptions file. Used by
luababel.def.
\BabelContentsFiles
New 3.9 This macro contains a list of “toc” types which require a command to
switch the language. Its default value is toc,lof,lot, but you may redefine it with
\renewcommand (it’s up to you to make sure no toc type is duplicated).
1.8 Hyphenation tools
\babelhyphen
\babelhyphen
* {〈type〉}
* {〈text〉}
New 3.9 It is customary to classify hyphens in two types: (1) explicit or hard
hyphens, which in T E X are entered as -, and (2) optional or soft hyphens, which
are entered as \-. Strictly, a soft hyphen is not a hyphen, but just a breaking
oportunity or, in T E X terms, a “discretionary”; a hard hyphen is a hyphen with a
breaking oportunity after it. A further type is a non-breaking hyphen, a hyphen
without a breaking oportunity.
In T E X, - and \- forbid further breaking oportunities in the word. This is the
desired behaviour very often, but not always, and therefore many languages
provide shorthands for these cases. Unfortunately, this has not been done
consistently: for example, in Dutch, Portugese, Catalan or Danish, "- is a hard
hyphen, while in German, Spanish, Norwegian, Slovak or Russian, it is a soft
hyphen. Furthermore, some of them even redefine \-, so that you cannot insert a
soft hyphen without breaking oportunities in the rest of the word.
Therefore, some macros are provide with a set of basic “hyphens” which can be
used by themselves, to define a user shorthand, or even in language files.
• \babelhyphen{soft} and \babelhyphen{hard} are self explanatory.
• \babelhyphen{repeat} inserts a hard hyphen which is repeated at the
beginning of the next line, as done in languages like Polish, Portugese and
Spanish.
• \babelhyphen{nobreak} inserts a hard hyphen without a break after it (even
if a space follows).
• \babelhyphen{empty} inserts a break oportunity without a hyphen at all.
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