Word with accent does not respect text width

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I have a word with accent: "Kleinekathöfer", also tried with: Kleinekath"{o}fer, and this word is going above the defined text width. Any insights? Thanks for you help.

You have not shown any clue about the source.... It will only be related to the accent if you are using OT1 encoding (if so switch to T1) otherwise have you specified the correct language? The US English patterns can not usefully hyphenate this. — David Carlisle, Oct 31 '22 at 15:35
Thanks for your help. To be honest I'm using a huge template file, I have no clue what I should be looking for to answer your comments. — jeremy, Oct 31 '22 at 15:46
make a copy of your document with just one paragraph, then delete every package not needed to show the problem, and post the resulting example here (or simply use Kleinekat\-höfer and ignore for now... — David Carlisle, Oct 31 '22 at 15:49
Please tell us whether you employ pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, or LuaLaTeX to compile your document. Do you load either the babel or the polyglossia package? If so, with which options? — Mico, Oct 31 '22 at 16:24
See also: boxes - What does "overfull hbox" mean? (Why is there a black mark at the end of a line?) - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange — user202729, Oct 31 '22 at 16:32
I'm using pdfLaTeX. After looking at all the different files included in this template I'm using, I've spotted "\usepackage[english]{babel}", and no polyglossia package seems to be imported. — jeremy, Oct 31 '22 at 16:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '22 at 21:14

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Try changing the line

\usepackage[english]{babel}

to

\usepackage[german]{babel}

The babel package loads the proper hyphenation patterns to your document. Another way is to provide the hyphenation pattern by hand as in hi\-fe\-ni\-zar

answered Oct 31 '22 at 21:14

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I think you should advise folks to employ ngerman instead of german -- unless they've indicated that they wish to adhere to pre-1996 spelling and grammar rules... – Mico Oct 31 '22 at 21:24
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The question gives virtually no information but since three of the four visible words are and, field and server my guess is this is an English document with a German word mid-sentence so globally changing babel not right – David Carlisle Oct 31 '22 at 21:58
David is correct, \usepackage[german,main=english]{babel} fixed the issue. – jeremy Nov 01 '22 at 11:57

Word with accent does not respect text width

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