# soul

soul package for latex and plain

Version: 2026-03-06 v3.2

Provides hyphenable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining, striking out, etc., using the TEX hyphenation algorithm to find the proper hyphens automatically. The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by syllable. This is shown in two examples.

This version is a merge of the original soul package from Melchior Franz and the soulutf8 package from Heiko Oberdiek
and support also UTF8.


## Copyright (C)

* 1998--2003  Melchior FRANZ
* 2007 Heiko Oberdiek
* 2016-2026 Oberdiek Package Support Group


## Issues
https://github.com/ho-tex/soul/issues


## License
LATEX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later.