[tex-hyphen] String preparation

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/26/2016 8:13 PM, Élie Roux wrote:

> I admit I don't really understand what you said... Does it mean that I
> can change the left value of the glyph node just for this node without
> impacting the whole language? If not, how can I change the left for one
> word and not for the word after?

yes, the first glyph in a word determines the language, left- and right 
hyphenmin and uc hyphenation

min word length, pre- and post hyphenchar are is a language property and 
not in the glyph

> For instance if I have
>
> left=right=2
>
> œdipus oedipus
>
> and I want
>
> œ-di-pus oe-di-pus
>
> should I just change the left field of the first (œ) node to 1?

indeed

Hans


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