> 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? > A more nuanced approach (which might not be too much additional work): > > \shorthyphenpenalty : A hyphenation penalty to apply for short words, > defaulting to something big but not impossible. > \shorthyphenlen : length of a word to consider short. > > I can see this being a useful approach - it doesn't hyphenate short words > normally, but it *can* if the alternative is really terrible (e.g. a small > column which would otherwise be an overfull box). > > \shorthyphenlen would default to 1 so that existing documents are unaffected. A very interesting idea, I'll add it on http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=930 Thank you! -- Elie
