[NTG-context] Suboptimal German hyphenation

[Pablo Rodriguez]

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