[tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of "Methode"
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Fri Mar 27 20:43:01 CET 2015
>> For example the hyphenation
>>
>> Ad-
>> lerhorst
>>
>> is not very readable, while
>>
>> be-
>> einspruchen
>>
>> is good.
>
> But I guess you can have less readable hyphenations with
> \lefthyphenmin=3.
No. In general, LHM and RHM having value 3 is better than value 2 for
German. However, some very important prefixes only have two
characters (be-, ab-, er-, un-, etc.). The right solution is to using
weighted hyphenations, together with LHM/RHM = 2.
Werner
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