Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> something fishy is going on with hyphenation patterns for German in
>>> mkiv. Here's a minimal test file:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> {\de \hyphenatedword{sich}}
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> please compile with mkii and mkiv and see the difference. The word
>>> should of course not be hyphenated.
>> so th epatterns are not good enough for lefthyphenmin=2
>>
>> we can set (for de) ...
>>
>> \c!lefthyphenmin=3,
>> \c!righthyphenmin=3,
>>
>> is that ok then?
>>
> It would help in this particular case, but in general, a hyphenation
> such as "al-le" ist correct, so left|righthyphenmin=2 is OK. I suspect
> the error is not in lefthyphenmin and righthyphenmin, but in the
> patterns themselves. Which patterns does mkiv actually use, and how
> have they been produced?
i don't know; maybe do some experiments with mkii versus mkiv and
different hyphenmin settings to see what happens
Hans
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