>> 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.
No. In general, LHM and RHM having value 3 is better than value 2 for
German. However, some very important prefixes only have two
characters (be-, ab-, er-, un-, etc.). The right solution is to using
weighted hyphenations, together with LHM/RHM = 2.
Werner
