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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Hyphenation/Changebars/[h] floats in LaTeX
Summary: update your macro packages for TeX 3.0!
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Date: 10 Mar 91 00:06:48 GMT
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In article <6984@idunno.Princeton.EDU> tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) writes:
|In article <1991Mar8.062238@bcat1.prime.com> kjg@s49.prime.com writes:
|>1.  Screwy hyphenation
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|>Here are some recent examples -- the "/" indicates a line break:
|>
|>     M/PHALT			RPADRTR/P
|>     spreadsheet/s		does/n't
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|I am having the exact same problem, and someone else posted about this
|problem a little while back, but I didn't see any reply.
|
|Here are some hyphenations copied directly from a tex log:
|
|      per-hap-s it-s s-lope

I am amazed that nobody posted to this thread by now. This problem
should be in FAQ.  These users are using OLD SOFTWARE with their new
TeX 3.0 implementation.  The files PLAIN.TEX and LPLAIN.TEX must be
updated when going over to TeX 3.+. There are a host of updates
involved, but the crucial change relating to hyphenation is

\lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=3 % disallow x- or -xx breaks

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