Hyphenation for german words wanted

Question

I am currently working on a german document. While proof-reading I noticed a lot of places where the hyphenation is not correct. My current solution to this problem is to separate the word in question manually, e.g.

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

becomes

Don-au-dampf-schiff-fahrts-ge-sell-schafts-ka-pi-tän.

But I have to do this for every occurence using search and replace. Is there another way, like a central dictionary mechanism I have not heard of yet? Maybe with an integration for an editor like Notepad++ or Atom that autosuggests hyphenized words?

I am using usepackage[T1]{fontenc} as suggested here: How to get proper German hyphenation?

I am also using usepackage[ngerman]{babel} but this does not solve the issue.

Konstantin W · Answer

Had the same issues, for a lot of German words the hyphenation is still incorrect. You can add the hyphsubst package to overcome this shortcoming.
usepackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}

U. Windl · Answer

Won't hyphenation{Don-au-dampf-schiff-fahrts-ge-sell-schafts-ka-pi-tän} once at the beginning of the document be sufficient?

Mensch · Answer

With an current MiKTeX 2.9 (version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (MiKTeX 2.9.6400 64-bit)) I can compile the following MWE without problems with the hyphenation. Fernbedienung is hyphenated as it should be ...

MWE:

documentclass{scrbook}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

begin{document}

parbox{0pt}{hspace{0pt}Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Fernbedienung}

end{document}

and its result:

Hyphenation for german words wanted

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