German language settings

German language settings

[Thomas Floeren]

Hi,

anybody at any time should add the appropriate settings for German to  
the lang-ger.tex file:


\unprotect

\setuplabeltext [\s!de]      [\v!page=Seite~]
\setuplabeltext [\s!de]    [\v!atpage=auf Seite~]
\setuplabeltext [\s!de] [\v!hencefore=oben]
\setuplabeltext [\s!de] [\v!hereafter=unten]

\protect

\setuplanguage [de] [lefthyphenmin=2,righthyphenmin=3]
\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]

This is no major problem, but it is inconvenient to have to add the  
settings each and any time when you make a new document, or to have a  
corrrection file in your texmf-local (not the proper way).

The lefthyphenmin=2 may be subject to discuss, but in real life this  
is the way we separate words. I know that it was considered ugly by  
some people/insitutions, but I think these considerations are rather  
obsolete. Set it to 3 if your doc has >90 letters/line in general. But  
this shouldn't be the default setting. Think of all the prefixed verbs  
'ergreifen', 'erstatten' etc. It *may* lead to *some* unwanted  
separations, but this should be handled by the hyphenation patterns.

Best wishes
Thomas
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