[NTG-context] Suboptimal German hyphenation
Henning Hraban Ramm
texml at fiee.net
Thu Sep 29 06:49:23 CEST 2022
Am 29.09.22 um 06:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context:
> Max Chernoff via ntg-context schrieb am 29.09.2022 um 02:17:
>> Babel/ngerman sets left/righthyphenmin to 2/2, but ConTeXt sets those to
>> 3/3 for German. (The English default is 2/3). I don't speak German so I
>> have no idea which is correct, but you can get the same behaviour in
>> ConTeXt with:
>>
>> \mainlanguage[de]
>> \lefthyphenmin=2
>> \righthyphenmin=2
>
> You can use \setuplanguage to change the values.
>
> \setuplanguage
> [de]
> [ lefthyphenmin=2,
> righthyphenmin=2]
Thank you, Leah, Max and Wolfgang! I changed that immediately in all of
my ongoing projects, but I don’t think we should change the default
after all these years.
published: https://literatur.social/@fiee/109079837141552277
Hraban
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