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Maarten Sneep
But the disadvantage of 8r is that in most languages the line-breaking algorithm performs badly. Take the dutch "verifi\"{e}ren".
so the 'funny' character is ediaeresis ? It is defined in 8r as well as in ec, so the hyphenation does not make any differences here. (In my test, I could not get rid of the accent, but the 8r and ec hyphenation were identical.) You are right though, this is why I wrote "in my german and english texts".
In the default 8r it doesn't break correcly, near the accent. In ec it does break well.
I could not confirm it here.
I don't know about texnansi.
It should be exactly like ec/8r.
I'm sure others can give better examples, and explain why the wordbreaking doesn't work correctly.
Because of the \accent macro??? Patrick