[tex-hyphen] Dictio-nary ?

[Arthur Rosendahl]

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 02:18:44PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     ration4, preventing the break ration-al).
> 
> In US English (as opposed to UK English and nearly? all? other
> languages), \righthyphenmin=3, so any -al break, or -?? in general,
> is not "allowed". -k

  OK, so rationally, then.  Or rationalist.  Or rationalize :-)  Point
is, the pattern ration4 of hyphen.tex comes from somewhere: there were
actual words in the input to patgen that caused this pattern to be
produced at hyphlevel 4, while the patterns produced up to hyphlevel 3
had allowed a break after -tion -- and all of those words had at least 3
letters after -tion, otherwise that point would have been ignored by
patgen.  So this is another apparent inconsistency.

  While we’re at it, I just noticed a pattern .ratio5na which I missed
yesterday: that’s the one that allows the break before ‘n’ in
rationally, of course, but that means there is no break at the same
place in operationally.  In this case I think it’s actually a missed
breakpoint, and we can add it the exception log.  For “dictionary”, I
just don’t know.

	Best,

		Arthur