> > Wouldn't it work with etex? > > No. As outlined in babel.pdf, plain.tex must not be modified, thus > there are only US-English hyphenation patterns available.
Sorry, my mistake. It works with etex too if you use this snippet instead of the previous one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \global\lefthyphenmin 2 \global\righthyphenmin 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So the fix to get some basic hyphenation is really trivial. Werner