Re: [tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of Methode

2015-03-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Example, please. It's not clear to me what you want to achieve. Even if LHM = 2 and RHM = 2, do not hyphenate any word of less than five letters. Thanks. No, this is not possible, AFAIK. Honestly, I don't a practical use for that. Instead, I would rather prefer to have a means to make

Re: [tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of Methode

2015-03-26 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 03/26/2015 10:26 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Since hyphenation in German is syllabic (the same word seems to say it: »Silbentrennung«), shouldn’t it be hyphenathed as Me-tho-de? That's not what I observe, using the patterns in TeX Live 2014. The word is correctly hyphenated Me-tho-de.

Re: [tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of Methode

2015-03-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
And this is good. While it prevents hyphenation of common short words like `ei-ne', it globally increases readability of German text. Of course, the exception is typesetting narrow columns; here you should decrease \{left,right}hyphenmin accordingly. Isn’t it possible also to set up the

Re: [tex-hyphen] German hyphenation of Methode

2015-03-26 Thread Philip Taylor
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Example, please. It's not clear to me what you want to achieve. Even if LHM = 2 and RHM = 2, do not hyphenate any word of less than five letters. Philip Taylor