[tex-hyphen] no hyphenmin for French?

Petr Sojka sojka at fi.muni.cz
Sun Oct 12 21:40:09 CEST 2008


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:48:53PM +0200, Karl Berry wrote:
> Arthur, Manuel, or anyone else with knowledge,
> 
> Why no \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin values for French in
> hyph-utf8?  Can French hyphens really happen at one lettr-
> e ?
> 
> Tried to research on web, sources, etc., no luck.

There are two settings for patterns (in general, not only 
for French):
a) one is for pattern generation (patgen, etc.) 
b) one is for pattern use (for specific use)
It has been shown that for a) it is best to use
one for both hyphenmins, as it improves pattern
generalization capabilities and does not restrict b).
Setting for b) depends whether one typesets in narrow
columns or not (e.g. for Czech one may even use (1,2)
in extreme cases instead of suggested (2,3)).
One may even set different values in one paragraph
(e.g. (2,5) for the last word in a paragraph).

Best
Petr 
 
> Yours in puzzlement,
> Karl (working on setting up hyphenation in Texinfo)
> 


More information about the tex-hyphen mailing list