On 10/19/22 16:47, Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context wrote:
[...] Many prefixes have two letters, so changing the default may be reasonable. But there are more experienced German typographers on this list who can chime in.
After some research, I found the recommendation in Forssman, de Jong: Detailtypografie (4. Aufl, 2008, S. 124f.) to use 2/3 for German justified texts, and 3/4 to 5/5 for ragged text. They also recommend to never hyphenate words with 5 letters, not sure that can be encoded.
Hi Leah, Hans added hyphenmin some time ago: \setuplanguage[de][lefthyphenmin=2, righthyphenmin=3, hyphenmin=6] \setuplanguage[deo][lefthyphenmin=2, righthyphenmin=3, hyphenmin=5] \mainlanguage[de] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \hyphenatedword{davon} \deo\hyphenatedword{davon} \stopTEXpage \stoptext It is technically on the wiki, but it lacks proper “wikification”. I hope it helps, Pablo