Dear all, It seems that \hyphenpenalty is not working at all in LuaTeX. See the difference between the outputs of LuaTeX and pdfTeX on the following example: \hyphenpenalty=-10000 ab\discretionary{-}{-}{-}cd \bye P.S.: I have reporter the issue on http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=842 Thank you! -- Elie