[luatex] Hyphenation in plain TeX

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 08/10/2010 17:03, Arthur Reutenauer a écrit :
>> FWIW, pdftex gives mé-daille, even with \(left|right)hyphenmin1.
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>   Well, it uses the same patterns, doesn't it?  :-)
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Sure. But since we are on the LuaTeX list, and the beginning of the discussion
was indeed luatex-specific, I just wanted to point out that there is nothing
special about luatex here.

>> I have no personal opinion on whether mé-dail-le is correct, but as a general
>> rule, I think the goal of the patterns is to avoid false positives
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>   I agree, but, that being said, I'm sure:
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>> (Or, as you say, picky typographers dislike ail-le.)
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>   ... is the right explanation for the patterns we have ;-)
> 
I fully trust you.

Manuel.