[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> And this is good.  While it prevents hyphenation of common short
>> words like `ei-ne', it globally increases readability of German
>> text.  Of course, the exception is typesetting narrow columns; here
>> you should decrease \{left,right}hyphenmin accordingly.
> 
> Isn’t it possible also to set up the total number of characters for
> a word to be hyphenated?
> 
> I mean something different from \lefthpyhenmin and \righthyphenmin.

Example, please.  It's not clear to me what you want to achieve.


    Werner