MikTeX 2.8 doesn't add hyphenation support for pdfLaTeX

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I'm using MikTeX 2.8 edition, and installed the hungarian language support and hyphenation files. Using the standard LaTeX command they work fine, but when I try to use pdfLaTeX, they don't get loaded and I get the

(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\magyar.ldf
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\babel.def)
Package babel /b/c12/cWarning:/b/c0/c No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `Magyar'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

message. Using latex it works fine:

(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg)
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\magyar.ldf
(C:\stuff\miktex\tex\generic\babel\babel.def)))

I tried updating the FNDB and the Formats, but to no avail.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '10 at 12:36

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I had the same problem in Windows 7. I installed MikTeX and configured the hyphenation languages under administrator account and when I started to use pdflatex under my own account, it turned out that it did not detect the languages that I had added in the MikTex Settings (Admin) application.

The solution was to run MikTex Settings under my own account (i.e. the non-Admin program in Start Menu) and click the button "Update Formats".

answered Jun 02 '10 at 12:36

Jaan

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This answer helped me a lot... tried to figure out my problem for like 2 hours now and it turned out that my problem was exactly what you mentioned in the last sentence! update formats in user-mode and now my tex configuration knows about the hyphenation finally, thanks a lot! – Steven Sep 12 '19 at 08:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '10 at 16:43

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I have the same problem with MiKTeX 2.8, babel, pdflatex and language "portuguese". Regular latex works fine.

Went back to MiKTeX 2.7 and the problem doesn't happen.

answered May 08 '10 at 16:43

Hugo Nobrega

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '10 at 16:25

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Removing MikTeX 2.8 and cleaning the registry by hand, then reinstalling it solved the problem. (simply removing and reinstalling didn't solve it)

answered May 14 '10 at 16:25

SztupY

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 11 '10 at 14:21

First find out language.dat file under your installation. Then find there a string like %magyar bla-bla-bla, remove comment (% mark), or, if there is no such line in that file - add it. Bla-bla-bla stands for the exact name of file with hyphenation table, you should google of how does that called.

Then run "update formats" from the miktex options menu, BUT - do that for the Options, and NOT for Options (Admin) menu.

Good luck!

MikTeX 2.8 doesn't add hyphenation support for pdfLaTeX

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