On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:04:23AM +0200, Élie Roux wrote: > > I think it's a very reasonable suggestion. I guess it wasn't in TeX > > originally because patgen could handle this, language wide. > > I'm sorry, I'm no expert in the field... I admit I don't really > understand what you mean by that? Do you mean that patgen can generate > exceptions for words < x letters? > I mean that if patgen is fed with unhyphenated words which are < x letters, then it would recognise those as bad hyphenations. But I think it would probably get very messy, and yes, you'd probably just end up with a list of exceptions, unless it found a shorter pattern to account for them.
David
