Hello
I might be misunderstanding, but would \lefthyphenmin = 2 and
\righthyphenmin = 3 not solve this? I have \righthyphenmin set to 3 for all
the language hyphenation patterns that I need to invoke, but there's no need
for the left and right settings to be identical.
But as I say, I might not be understanding the problem!
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Élie Roux
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 4:13 PM
To: xetex@tug.org
Subject: [XeTeX] add \hyphenateminwordsize
Dear XeTeX developers,
In many languages, small words shouldn't be hyphenated, and this is not
always possible with \left/righthyphenmin. For instance, many languages
(Spanish for example) don't want to hyphenate words of 4 letters or
less, but still having \left/righthyphenmin = 2.
Example of the desired hyphenation: "come" (no hyphen), "co-mi-da".
If \left/righthyphenmin == 2, this will hyphen "co-me" (which is not the
desired behavior), and with \left/righthyphemin == 3, it will not hyphen
"comida".
Currently it doesn't seem possible to have the desired behaviour. The
request would be to add \hyphenateminwordsize, that would set the
minimal character length of a word to be hyphenated. In the example,
having \hyphenateminwordsize = 4 and \left/righthyphenmin = 2 would make
the right output.
LibreOffice has a similar option, and LuaTeX will certainly add it:
http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=930
Apparently the patch is not very intrusive. What do you think about
adding it?
Thank you,
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Elie
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