How To Install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fixltxhyph in Fedora 36. texlive-fixltxhyph is Allow hyphenation of partially-emphasised substrings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36.

What is texlive-fixltxhyph

The package fixes the problem of TeX failing to hyphenate letter strings that seem (to TeX) to be words, but which are followed by an apostrophe and then an emphasis command. The cause of the problem is not the apostrophe, but the font change in the middle of the string. The problem arises in Catalan, French, Italian and Romansh.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-fixltxhyph.

Install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-fixltxhyph using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fixltxhyph

Install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-fixltxhyph using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-fixltxhyph

How To Uninstall texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-fixltxhyph package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-fixltxhyph

texlive-fixltxhyph Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fixltxhyph
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fixltxhyph/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fixltxhyph
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fixltxhyph/fixltxhyph.sty

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fixltxhyph on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).