Hi Leah,
> I was typesetting some German text on a narrow page when I discovered
> the justification wasn't as good as expected. I think I tracked this
> down to differences in hyphenation points, namely, ConTeXt has fewer:
>
> \starttext
> \language[de]
> \showhyphens{Zusammenhang}
> \showhyphens{anderswo}
> \showhyphens{anderswoher}
> \stoptext
>
> This shows
> languages > hyphenation > show: Zusam[-||]men[-||]hang
> languages > hyphenation > show: anderswo
> languages > hyphenation > show: anders[-||]wo[-||]her
Babel/ngerman sets left/righthyphenmin to 2/2, but ConTeXt sets those to
3/3 for German. (The English default is 2/3). I don't speak German so I
have no idea which is correct, but you can get the same behaviour in
ConTeXt with:
\mainlanguage[de]
\lefthyphenmin=2
\righthyphenmin=2
\starttext
\showhyphens{Zusammenhang}
\showhyphens{anderswo}
\showhyphens{anderswoher}
\stoptext
which gives:
languages > hyphenation > show: Zu[-||]sam[-||]men[-||]hang
languages > hyphenation > show: an[-||]ders[-||]wo
languages > hyphenation > show: an[-||]ders[-||]wo[-||]her
-- Max
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