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how can I globally enable hyphenation for the first word in a paragraph? A manual workaround is to add \hspace{0pt} in front of the corresponding word, so that it is not counted as first word, but it would be very good to have a global solution for this. Any ideas?

Kindest regards, Mil

Mil
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  • Do you have so long words or so narrow columns that this is necessary in every paragraph? – egreg Nov 02 '15 at 10:04
  • Not that many, but a long document with many enough instances that I was thinking about a smooth, global solution. Also this is especially problematic in tables. I realize that for every first word in a cell, the problem can be solved with >{\hspace{0pt}}; but if I have multiple paragraphs in a cell, this solution is also not satisfying... – Mil Nov 02 '15 at 10:18
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    It is hard to imagine that you ever want to hyphenate the first word of a paragraph in the main text? In table columns yes (but that can be specified) doing it in the main text is harder. Or use luatex where this is the default behaviour. – David Carlisle Nov 02 '15 at 10:29
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    Perhaps he's writing an article on Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr. – Psychonaut Nov 02 '15 at 10:38
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    @Psychonaut Gesundheit!! – Steven B. Segletes Nov 02 '15 at 10:49
  • @StevenB.Segletes: :D :D :D –  Nov 02 '15 at 10:53
  • Indeed the document is written in German – so lots of funny, long words that are to be dealt with. ;) – Mil Nov 02 '15 at 11:57
  • @DavidCarlisle Could you elaborate on how 'that can be specified'? I am interested in hyphenation in margin notes. – Andreas Nov 04 '15 at 11:51
  • Can anyone explain (or point to some external resource about) why that is disabled / hard / bad to do? – Andreas Nov 04 '15 at 11:53
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    @Andreas It is almost certainly an accidental artefact of the implementation, but frozen now as TeX-the-program is frozen apart from major bugs. LuaTeX, which is not so tied by historical compatibility has changed this so the first word is hyphenated. – David Carlisle Nov 04 '15 at 13:34

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I assume you're currently compiling your document with pdfLaTeX. If that's the case, I suggest you switch to LuaLaTeX. LuaLaTeX is able to hyphenate the first word of every paragraph without the user having to specify anything special.

Mico
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