[tex-hyphen] right/left hyphenmin

[Vladimir Volovich]

"HH" == Hans Hagen writes:

 >> note that some pattern files also set \lefthyphenmin and
 >> \righthyphenmin.

 HH> i guess that this is done because of the constraints they were
 HH> generated in;

not necessarily. one could say that "good defaults" the hyphenmins are
known for at least some languages, and thus e.g. ruhyphen stored them in
the pattern files, and babel's behavior was such that it obeyed whatever
hyphenmin values were set by pattern files, and it worked even when the
*.ldf file did not contain the providehyphenmins command.

Best,
v.