Taco Hoekwater
Vladimir Volovich wrote:
some languages need a lot of discretionaries for proper hyphenation, and allowing to specify whole-word exceptions with arbitary discretionaries is already a good step forward, but i wonder if you plan to extend the \patterns mechanism to support arbitrary discretionaries too?
For sure. Feel free to propose a syntax ;-)
Of course, while we are at it, we want \patterns{a23b} to have the normal meaning of "2", but delivering a penalty corresponding to 70 when we have specified \hyphenpenalties 5 10 30 40 70 20 (similar to the widowpenalties multiplicity). That allows specifying breakpoints with various priorities (good and bad ones). Another wishlist item would be to be able to use the pattern mechanism for picking between long and short s forms (won't help in the case of "Wachstube" which can have either depending on meaning, but should work for most other cases). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum