I'm using the nomecl package for explaining symbols. However, manual hyphenation rules like Kontrast/Rausch"=Verhältnis for long german words in the description are not working. See the following example:
\nomenclature[e187]{$\mathbf{w}$}{Gewichtungsvektor blabla blabla blabla mit maximalem Kontrast/Rausch"=Verhältnis}`
gives
where the "= is not interpreted.
(Converting my comment into an answer.)
makeindex has its own set of special characters (independent of TeX's special characters). These are typically: " (escape), @ (actual), ! (level) and | (format). If an indexed term contains any of these characters they need to be escaped using makeindex's escape character. So in this case you need to do "" to indicate a single-double quote character. Like this:
Kontrast/Rausch""=Verhältnis
(Whereas you would need to do "! for an exclamation mark, etc.)
These characters can be changed via a makeindex style file.
"is a makeindex special character. You may need to do""to escape it or use a different command to do the manual hyphenation. – Nicola Talbot Jul 28 '14 at 13:50"-work? Doesnomenclexplicitly recognize that as a babel shorthand? – LaRiFaRi Jul 28 '14 at 14:02"-expands to something that doesn't contain a double-quote character then it won't bothermakeindex. I don't know ifnomencltries to perform any checks formakeindexcharacters. (glossariesdoes, but the substitutions only work if the definitions are made in the preamble before those characters are made active bybabel. Any definitions made in thedocumentenvironment may work if the problematic characters aren't in the label or sort key.) – Nicola Talbot Jul 28 '14 at 14:18nomencl(although one of the answers covers it). – Nicola Talbot Jul 28 '14 at 14:20nomencl. I asked him to clarify his questions and worked out an answer but meanwhile the OP created a second question. That's why I think it is doubled. But you could write your comments as an answer and I'll pull back my close-vote – LaRiFaRi Jul 28 '14 at 14:28