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From: eijkhout@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: hyphenation in TeX 3.0?
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Date: 27 Oct 90 18:41:44 GMT
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geyer@galton.uchicago.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:

>The TeX 3.0 we have here performs the following terrible hyphenation:
>in response to \showhyphens{Younes} it echos

> \tenrm Y-ounes

You are probably using an old version of plain.tex.
The length of the hyphenated fragments is controlledby
two new parameters in TeX 3, \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin.
These have probably a default 1, but are set to 2 and 3
respectively in the plain format. If you are not in a position
to recreate your format (complain fiercely to your systems crew,
because they messed up!, but in the mean while)
include statements
\lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=3
in the jobs where this occurs.

Victor.