[luatex] \hyphenpenalty not working

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Élie Roux <elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote:

>> I now vaguely recall writing an optimisation where the first attempt
>> is skipped under some circumstances, and that could be the problem
>> here (apparently that does not take into account possible negative
>> values of \hyphenpenalty). I had forgotten about that optimisation,
>> but it seems that that is what is going on.
> 
> Oh, ok! What will you do about this? Will you document the current
> behaviour as the LuaTeX behaviour, or will there be an option to change it?
> 
> Thank you!

That optimisation should just go away again (I hope I can find it still).