[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"

David Gardner somloieater at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 10:19:41 CEST 2015


On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:04:23AM +0200, Élie Roux wrote:
> > I think it's a very reasonable suggestion. I guess it wasn't in TeX 
> > originally because patgen could handle this, language wide. 
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm no expert in the field... I admit I don't really
> understand what you mean by that? Do you mean that patgen can generate
> exceptions for words < x letters?
>
I mean that if patgen is fed with unhyphenated words which are  < x letters,
then it would recognise those as bad hyphenations. But I think it would
probably get very messy, and yes, you'd probably just end up with a list of
exceptions, unless it found a shorter pattern to account for them.

David


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