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From: andy@juno.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX hypenation
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Date: 11 Jun 90 22:33:52 GMT
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I was a bit sloppy when I made the required version of latex needed
to print the fontsel reprint from TUGboat -- I forgot to set
\righthypenmin and \lefthyphenmin (I'm using TeX 3.0).  TeX did some
interesting hyphenation -- my favourites are "al-l" and "selec-t".

Setting the above two variables fixes these hypenation errors.  However,
I have a question.  Given that the document is set in a sans-serif font,
the word "all" appears to be shorter in length than "al-", so why would
TeX even bother to hyphenate when the result is longer?  In the other
case, I think the "t" is no wider than the "-" but it's close.  Or is it
a matter of not worrying about something that couldn't possibly happen?

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