From: Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>, Max Chernoff <mseven@telus.net>
Subject: Re: Suboptimal German hyphenation
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:44:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qrvj9ft.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b6f64bfef3bc4e2fcb9f495e14694f6064397a5.camel@telus.net> (Max Chernoff via ntg-context's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:17:42 -0600")
Max Chernoff via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> writes:
> Hi Leah,
>
>> I was typesetting some German text on a narrow page when I discovered
>> the justification wasn't as good as expected. I think I tracked this
>> down to differences in hyphenation points, namely, ConTeXt has fewer:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \language[de]
>> \showhyphens{Zusammenhang}
>> \showhyphens{anderswo}
>> \showhyphens{anderswoher}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> This shows
>> languages > hyphenation > show: Zusam[-||]men[-||]hang
>> languages > hyphenation > show: anderswo
>> languages > hyphenation > show: anders[-||]wo[-||]her
>
> 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:
Perfect, thanks!
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.
--
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 22:24 Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-09-29 0:17 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-09-29 0:44 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context [this message]
2022-10-19 14:47 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-19 18:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-10-31 7:47 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2022-09-29 4:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2022-09-29 4:49 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-09-29 6:27 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2022-09-29 6:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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