On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 23:32, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > - If the limits were set in the usual way before loading patterns, > they would set upper limit on the values that are possible to use > > I don't understand. > > As far as I know, the current values for \lefthyphenmin and > \righthyphenmin are used at line-breaking time (\par). They can be > reset at any time. I've never seen any concept of a format definition > setting an "upper limit". > > They aren't used by \patterns at all. As far as I can see from tex.web.
I'm sorry. I mixed up things. I wanted to say "lower limit", but maybe that's done during pattern generation, not during pattern loading. (From what I've heard setting righthyphenmin=5 during patgen run will generate patterns that won't allow less than 5 characters to be broken on the right of the word, no matter to what value one sets righthyphenmin during typesetting.) But I'm not an expert in that, so I may be wrong. To François: maybe one can fix language.dat (if the way that Jörg Knappen suggested works) or I can generate a file with those values in arbitrary format, but inside the hyph-utf8 package we cannot set those values (no matter what we set, the settings will be forgotten). Mojca
