[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"

[Philip Taylor]

Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> I would say \totalhyphenmin may solve the issue, but I’m not totally
> sure whether there are some exceptions in Spanish that cannot be solved
> with \totalhyphenmin.

OK, so if we can try to identify the potential problems :  would I be 
correct in thinking that in Spanish /most/ four-letter words should not 
be hyphenated, but some may be, and therefore a \(total)hyphenmin = 5, 
even with an explicit list of exceptions, would not solve the problem 
since on encountering /any/ word of fewer than \(total)hyphenmin letters 
TeX would not attempt to hyphenate it, and therefore would not consult 
the list of exceptions ?

** Phil.