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I want to hyphenate some German words. As an example, for the word Erb-b2-Familie, I want

  • the first hyphen sign to be non-breakable
  • the second hyphen sign to be breakable
  • the rest of the word (Familie) to be hyphenated as ususal.
% !TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{german}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}

\begin{document}

\parbox{0pt}{
    Tyrosin"-kinase, Erb"~b2-Familie
}\\[2em]

\hyphenation{Tyrosin-kinase}    % <- this works
\hyphenation{Erb=b2=Fa-mi-lie}  % <- this does not?
\parbox{0pt}{
    Tyrosinkinase, Erb-b2-Familie
}

\end{document}

I cannot find a good reference for how to use the \hyphenation{} command, in particular what the syntax of the exception word lists is. In a different question I found the option to use a = character to denote a breakable hyphen sign, but even that does not seem to work in my example.

JayStrictor
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    I can't test now but I wouldn't have expected words with digits to hyphenate at all (without changes to the lccode). – Ulrike Fischer Jul 12 '19 at 10:06
  • The easiest way to achieve this, is to don't define a hyphenation for this word, but instead use this special symbol ‑ in the text where you want to not break and the normal symbol - where a break would be ok (tested with LuaTeX). The symbol = seems to not have any effect, as you also said. – Guest Dec 24 '22 at 14:50

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