[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"

[Pander]

On 04/09/2015 10:04 AM, Élie Roux wrote:
>> I think it's a very reasonable suggestion. I guess it wasn't in TeX 
>> originally because patgen could handle this, language wide. 
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm no expert in the field... I admit I don't really
> understand what you mean by that? Do you mean that patgen can generate
> exceptions for words < x letters?
> 
>> 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.
> 
> A very interesting idea, I'll add it on
> 
> http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=930
> 

I have been working on an international standard for hyphenation pattern
definitions. The draft can be found here
https://github.com/OpenTaal/hyphenation-definitions For that I have been
collecting many real world examples for which patgen is not suitable.
This will form the specifications for a next generation patgen. A
community on whos work this RFC is based is already working better
hyphenation. If you need more info, pleaes contact me.

> Thank you!
>