Tinytex: Issues with hyphenation

[jreduardo]

When I run pdflatex (or its friends xelatex, lualatex) on a document with package babel, option other than english, I receive the message:

%--- document.tex           |  %--- message after run pdflatex document.tex
                            |
\documentclass{article}     |  Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
                            |  (babel)                the language `Portuguese' into the format.
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}  |  (babel)                Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}    |  (babel)                rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} |  (babel)                preloaded for english instead on input line 55.
                            |
\begin{document}            |
                            |
Body text ...               |
                            |
\end{document}              |

Even after run fmtutils-sys --all (in terminal or using the wrapper tinytex::tlmgr_update()), the hyphenation don't work.
The (final) output of fmtutils-sys --all is

Transcript written on dvilualatex.log.
fmtutil [INFO]: /home/eduardojr/.TinyTeX/texmf-var/web2c/luatex/dvilualatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 1
fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 14
fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 15
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0

To try to debug this error, I installed a huge LaTeX distribution texlive and additional packages. And when I ran /usr/bin/pdflatex document.tex the output was fine and the hyphenation worked.

Faced with this, I tried to put the files related to the packages that make the hyphenation side by side. But I didn't find crucial differences, everything seems equal (config/language*, babel/portuges.sty, hyphen/hyphen.tex).

Do you have any idea what could be wrong?

>  devtools::session_info(pkgs = "tinytex")

# ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#  setting  value
#  version  R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
#  os       Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
#  system   x86_64, linux-gnu
#  ui       X11
#  language (EN)
#  collate  en_US.UTF-8
#  ctype    en_US.UTF-8
#  tz       America/Sao_Paulo
#  date     2019-02-10
#
# ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#  package * version date       lib source
#  tinytex   0.10.3  2019-02-06 [1] Github (yihui/tinytex@299eee2)
#  xfun      0.4     2018-10-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
#
# [1] /usr/lib/R/site-library
# [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
# [3] /usr/lib/R/library


>  tinytex::tl_pkgs()

# tlmgr info --list --only-installed --data name
#   [1] "amscls"                      "amsfonts"
#   [3] "amsmath"                     "avantgar"
#   [5] "babel"                       "babel-english"
#   [7] "babel-portuges"              "beamer"
#   [9] "biblatex"                    "bibtex"
#  [11] "bibtex"                      "bookman"
#  [13] "booktabs"                    "caption"
#  [15] "charter"                     "cm"
#  [17] "cm-super"                    "cmextra"
#  [19] "collection-basic"            "collection-fontsrecommended"
#  [21] "colorprofiles"               "courier"
#  [23] "dehyph"                      "dvipdfmx"
#  [25] "dvipdfmx"                    "dvips"
#  [27] "dvips"                       "ec"
#  [29] "enctex"                      "etex"
#  [31] "etex-pkg"                    "etoolbox"
#  [33] "euenc"                       "euro"
#  [35] "euro-ce"                     "eurosym"
#  [37] "fancyhdr"                    "fancyvrb"
#  [39] "float"                       "fontspec"
#  [41] "fpl"                         "framed"
#  [43] "geometry"                    "glyphlist"
#  [45] "graphics"                    "graphics-cfg"
#  [47] "graphics-def"                "gsftopk"
#  [49] "gsftopk"                     "helvetic"
#  [51] "hyperref"                    "hyph-utf8"
#  [53] "hyphen-base"                 "ifetex"
#  [55] "ifluatex"                    "iftex"
#  [57] "ifxetex"                     "inconsolata"
#  [59] "knuth-lib"                   "knuth-local"
#  [61] "kpathsea"                    "kpathsea"
#  [63] "l3kernel"                    "l3packages"
#  [65] "lastpage"                    "latex"
#  [67] "latex-bin"                   "latex-bin"
#  [69] "latex-fonts"                 "latexconfig"
#  [71] "latexmk"                     "latexmk"
#  [73] "lm"                          "lm-math"
#  [75] "logreq"                      "lua-alt-getopt"
#  [77] "lualibs"                     "luaotfload"
#  [79] "luaotfload"                  "luatex"
#  [81] "luatex"                      "makecell"
#  [83] "makeindex"                   "makeindex"
#  [85] "manfnt-font"                 "marvosym"
#  [87] "mathpazo"                    "mathspec"
#  [89] "mathtools"                   "memoir"
#  [91] "metafont"                    "metafont"
#  [93] "metalogo"                    "mflogo"
#  [95] "mflogo-font"                 "mfware"
#  [97] "mfware"                      "ms"
#  [99] "natbib"                      "ncntrsbk"
# [101] "oberdiek"                    "palatino"
# [103] "parskip"                     "pdftex"
# [105] "pdftex"                      "pgf"
# [107] "plain"                       "psnfss"
# [109] "pxfonts"                     "realscripts"
# [111] "rsfs"                        "scheme-infraonly"
# [113] "supertabular"                "symbol"
# [115] "tetex"                       "tetex"
# [117] "tex"                         "tex-gyre"
# [119] "tex-gyre-math"               "tex-ini-files"
# [121] "tex"                         "texlive-common"
# [123] "texlive-docindex"            "texlive-en"
# [125] "texlive-msg-translations"    "texlive-scripts"
# [127] "texlive-scripts"             "texlive"
# [129] "texlive"                     "textpos"
# [131] "times"                       "tipa"
# [133] "titlesec"                    "titling"
# [135] "tools"                       "translator"
# [137] "txfonts"                     "unicode-data"
# [139] "updmap-map"                  "upquote"
# [141] "url"                         "utopia"
# [143] "wasy"                        "wasy2-ps"
# [145] "wasysym"                     "xcolor"
# [147] "xdvi"                        "xdvi"
# [149] "xetex"                       "xetex"
# [151] "xetexconfig"                 "xkeyval"
# [153] "xltxtra"                     "xunicode"
# [155] "zapfchan"                    "zapfding"

[yihui]

Does tinytex::tlmgr_install("hyphen-portuguese") solve the problem?

[jreduardo]

Ooh thanks, this worked (I'm ashamed of not having found this simple solution before :smile:).
By the way, thank you for the tinytex package, it's nice!

[yihui]

No worries. Thanks for the confirmation! I think I can at least make the life of R users easier by providing a more helpful message when the hyphenation package is missing.

[jreduardo]

It would be great.

[hplieninger]

I had the same issue with German and want to share my solution for those coming across this issue.

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
                       the language `German (new orthography)' into the format.

The solution was to run tinytex::tlmgr_install("collection-langgerman")

Thank you, Yihui, for an awesome package.

[yihui]

@hplieninger Thanks for sharing the solution!

[jrennstich]

Unfortunately, I still run into the same issue. I have successfully installed all required files via tinytex::tlmgr_install("collection-langgerman") and still get that error msg. I checked specifically for the hyphen file and got the message
tlmgr install: package already present: hyphen-german, and I checked the installed packages and they were all there.
Any further suggestions how to tackle this?

UPDATE: I have updated all packages, to no avail. I am still getting the same error.

[jrennstich]

I still continue to get the error message, despite having uninstalled collection-langgerman) and reinstalled it again, hoping I would get the same result as @hplieninger .

I do get two error messages though:

fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdflatex.ini for pdflatex/pdftex not found.
fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile latex.ini for latex/pdftex not found.

Could that be related to my issue?

[yihui]

@jreduardo Could you try tinytex::tlmgr_install(c('texlive-scripts', 'dehyph-exptl'))? Thanks!

[jrennstich]

@jreduardo Could you try tinytex::tlmgr_install(c('texlive-scripts', 'dehyph-exptl'))? Thanks!

Thanks @yihui for the suggestion. This time the command worked, both pkgs were installed. Alas, no change. I also deinstalled and reinstalled using tinytex::tlmgr_install("collection-langgerman"). I keep getting those warnings:

fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile latex.ini for latex/pdftex not found.
fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdflatex.ini for pdflatex/pdftex not found.

[jrennstich]

Now it works. After deleting the folder Users/jrennstich/.TinyTeX and reinstalling everything it works.

[yihui]

@jreduardo Thanks for reporting back! https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/529413/9128

[fkohrt]

@yihui Using tinytex 0.25.1 I still get the warning

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel) the language `German (new orthography)' into the format.
(babel) Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
(babel) rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
(babel) preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 47.

Installing tinytex::tlmgr_install(c('texlive-scripts', 'dehyph-exptl')) doesn't remedy it, only tinytex::tlmgr_install("collection-langgerman") does. Maybe this should be taken care of automatically by the package?