[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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