[tex-hyphen] hyphenating overview

[Philip Taylor]

Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have just checked (at https://tex.mendelu.cz/en/), that “overview”
> isn’t hyphenated at all.
>
> English hyphenation is a mistery to me. But I still wonder why
> “overview” isn’t hyphenated and “over-heat” is (both in US English).
>
> Sorry, but I tend to think that there may be an error there.
>
> Would you be so kind to confirm my mistake in the assumption above (that
> one of the hyphenations is wrong)?

There may well be.  With British English patterns, "overview" (as the second or subsequent word of a paragraph) is hyphenated as expected; with American English patterns, it is not :

> \hsize = 0 pt
>
> \uselanguage {UKenglish}
>
> Overview overview overview
>
>
> \uselanguage {USenglish}
>
> Overview overview overview
>
>
> \end
>

Philip Taylor