Folks,
right now a user has to know in advance what values for \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin have been used to compute hyphenation patterns. This is problematic. IMHO, it would be a much better solution if pattern files are self-contained. I thus suggest to add to all hyphenation pattern files in the `tex-hyphen' repository two lines to the header comments: % \lefthyphenmin=X % \righthyphenmin=Y (with proper values for `X' and `Y'). Werner