[tex-hyphen] right/left hyphenmin

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Mon Jun 16 11:46:59 CEST 2008



Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> While we're at it: nehyph96 says
>    \lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=2
> while
>    dutch.ldf:\providehyphenmins{\CurrentOption}{\tw@\thr@@}
> 
> Whom should one believe?

2-2 is good enough for the official rules, but hyphenations like
"over-al" (everywhere) will look bad to many dutch people so
the dutch 'babel crew' decided to use 3 instead.

My personal preference is 2-2.

Best wishes,
Taco





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