On 03/27/2015 09:36 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> [...] >> 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
It is clear that I missed something specific to German: word composition. At least, it is a specific feature considered from languages derived from Latin (such as Spanish). I will check the list. Many thanks for the information. > For example the hyphenation > > Ad- > lerhorst > > is not very readable, while > > be- > einspruchen > > is good. But I guess you can have less readable hyphenations with \lefthyphenmin=3. Pablo-- http://www.ousia.tk
