On Columbus Day 2008, Karl Berry wrote:
> Why no \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin values for French in
> hyph-utf8? Can French hyphens really happen at one lettr-
> e ?
Ha! I just found an example in a book[*] I'm reading: État (State) is
hyphenated É-tat. I don't think this is particularily good taste and
even find it disruptive, which is probably why I noticed it; I wasn't
paying any particular attention to typography.
Arthur
[*] Laurence de Cock, Fanny Madeline, Nicolas Offenstadt, Sophie
Wahnich, _Comment Nicolas Sarkozy écrit l'histoire de France_, Agone,
2008, p. 82, l. 13.
