From: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: Re: Suboptimal German hyphenation
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:02:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8699481-0d98-0740-e252-3e75bbc9d21a@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czanc1lf.fsf@vuxu.org>
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
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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
2022-10-19 14:47 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-19 18:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context [this message]
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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