[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"
David Gardner
somloieater at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 09:49:29 CEST 2015
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 04:50:31PM +0200, Élie Roux wrote:
> * having a \totalhyphenmin primitive that would set the minimal total
> characters of an hyphenated word
>
> Is the first solution reasonable? If not, I think it might be worth
> asking for \totalhyphenmin in engines under development (LuaTeX, XeTeX),
> what do you think? LibreOffice has an option for it, and it seems
> reasonable, so I can't see why it would be refused. If you think it
> might help, I can report the request.
>
I think it's a very reasonable suggestion. I guess it wasn't in TeX
originally because patgen could handle this, language wide.
A more nuanced approach (which might not be too much additional work):
\shorthyphenpenalty : A hyphenation penalty to apply for short words,
defaulting to something big but not impossible.
\shorthyphenlen : length of a word to consider short.
I can see this being a useful approach - it doesn't hyphenate short words
normally, but it *can* if the alternative is really terrible (e.g. a small
column which would otherwise be an overfull box).
\shorthyphenlen would default to 1 so that existing documents are unaffected.
David
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