"Jörg Knappen" wrote:
TeX can hyphenate such a word, depending on the patterns available. E.g., given the pattern a1 (There is always a good break point after the letter a) it will happily hyphenate the a word containing the sequence a<xqqyn>.
Ah, ys, so it can. I had overlooked that. Thank you, Jörg. ** Phil.
