That's right. The thing is I use "babel" and if you use "babel" \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin are taking no effect.<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">conventionally correct values for English,<br>
namely 2 and 3</blockquote>
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That's the reason why I would like to change that. I can't stand such
short hyphenation, I really wish LaTeX would provide an option for
"Hyphenation Zone" and "Limit consecutive hyphen"; would make things soo
much easier...<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 14, 2008 8:03 PM, Karl Berry <<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org">karl@freefriends.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"> meaning don't hyphenate when<br> only x characters are left before/after the hyphenation<br><br></div>That sounds like \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin. But LaTeX should<br>already have them set to the conventionally correct values for English,
<br>namely 2 and 3 (or whatever language, for that matter).<br><font color="#888888"><br>karl<br></font></blockquote></div><br>