Am 26.05.2010 10:08, schrieb Jörg Knappen:
Taco wrote:
Stephan Hennig wrote:
A) word compounds - penalty -20 (e.g.)
Don't negative penalties encourage line breaks? No hyphenation is still
better than compound word hyphenation, no?
Yes, but all word compounds are also in the regular patterns, which
raises their penalties values to above zero.
As an partial answer to Stefan Hennig's comment: There are (existing
and documented in the typographical literature) situations where no
hyphenation is worse than some hyphenation. In german typesetting
this applies to \emph{Rauhsatz} which is a kind of
flushleft-raggedright typesetting.
aiming at a small ragged zone. Thanks for reminding me about this
application of compound word hyphenation!
Because german words tend to be long, hyphenation at preferred
hyphenation points is much better than no hyphenation at all.
That should be dealt with by balancing stretchability (line badness)
against hyphenation penalties. Indeed, compound word hyphenation
penalty could be zero in Rauhsatz, as an extreme, but shouldn't be
negative, IMHO.
Best regards,
Stephan Hennig
