> With LHM=3 and RHM=3, I prevent the hyphenation of German "also", > "eine" and other similar ones. But also Er-kennt-nis (the first > syllabe), eben-so and Me-tho-de aren’t hyphenated.
Correct. > In Spanish, I don’t want to hyphenate either four--letter words like > "co-mo". But I want to be able to hyphenate "co-mi-da". And I must > have both or none. OK. >> Then I could add a list of short German words where 2-2 hyphenation >> looks OK. > > I’m not sure whether I missing something specific feature of the > German language. But I would say that readability in hyphenation > depends on word length. Not at all. In German it depends on the `quality' of a hyphenation point. I strongly recommend that you have a look at our `wortliste' project, where we have added weighted hyphenation points (or rather, we are trying to classify them). http://repo.or.cz/w/wortliste.git For example the hyphenation Ad- lerhorst is not very readable, while be- einspruchen is good. Werner
