[tex-hyphen] [tex-live] language.def

[Zdenek Wagner]

2008/6/17 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> 2008/6/17 Zdenek Wagner:
>>> Both Czech and Slovak: \lefthyphenmin=2, \righthyphenmin=3
>>> Typographical rules allow \righthyphenmin=2 when typesetting in a
>>> narrow column (newspapers etc.).
>>
>> I've seen this in sources:
>>
>> \expandafter\ifx\csname PavelSevecek\endcsname\relax
>> \global\everyjob = \expandafter
>>        {\the \everyjob
>>      \message {Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995}
>>        }
>> \def\PavelSevecek{}
>> \fi
>> %\lefthyphenmin=2\righthyphenmin=2
>> \patterns{
>>
>> but it's true that these values are not set anywhere, so it's probably
>> 2/3 (default) now. I have changed the values to 2/3.
>
> One more question: does language.def permit setting a different
> minimal and preferred value for hyphenmin? If the values are too high
> during format generation, they probably cannot be lowered, but vice
> versa is possible, if I understood it right?
>
\righthyphenmin is a normal TeX register. I use the following code:


\begin{multicols}{3}\righthyphenmin=2
...
\end{multicols}

> Thanks,
>    Mojca
>



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