Strange hyphenation with English (UK)

[Herbert Voss]

Am 10.09.23 um 06:53 schrieb Daniel:
> On 2023-09-09 23:02, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 9/9/23 14:41, Daniel wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I noticed that setting "English (UK)" as language under Document 
>>> Settings, leads to some strange hyphenation. For example, 
>>> "import-ant" and "theor-ethical". Is that a common issue with that 
>>> language dictionary or do I have a faulty setup?
>>
>> The latter, assuming you mean "theor-etical", looks acceptable to me, 
>> if not ideal. The former is apparently wrong, according to what I 
>> looked up online, though it actually sounds right to me. Or, perhaps 
>> better, morphologically, it feels right.
>>
>> I find I do sometimes have to override LaTeX's own choices in final 
>> preparation of documents.
>>
>> Riki
>
> I see, I wasn't aware that hyphenation is a style choice in English. 
> (In German there are fixed rules.)

No, there is no difference in handling the hyphenation rules.


>
> How do I override LaTeX's choices? I tried
>
> \hyphenation{im-por-tant the-o-re-ti-cal}
>
> But that seemed not to have helped.
>

It looks like you are using polyglossia.

For document->settings->language  choose babel and then write into
the preamble

\AtBeginDocument{\hyphenation{im-por-tant the-o-re-ti-cal}}

Herbert