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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: New York Times and hyphenation
Message-ID: <1991May31.143056.8311@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 31 May 91 14:30:56 GMT
References: <1991May26.205830.5267@csrd.uiuc.edu> <49725@ut-emx.uucp>
Reply-To: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <49725@ut-emx.uucp> myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) writes:
>
>Since you have brought the subject up... Ever since installing
>TeX 3.0 on my SparcStation I have gotten the impression that
>there is something wrong with the hyphenation in 3.0. 
>It seems to break words incorrectly  more often.  Often I find
>it breaking a word with only the last letter on the following line.
>
>My question:  Is there a difference in hyphenation between TeX 3.0
>and 2.9x (which I was happy with) or is it my imagination?
>
With probability 99.9%: you have installed it wrong, by upgrading the
program to TeX 3.0 without upgrading plain.tex. Moral: don't do partial
upgrades.

TeX 3.0, with the correct plain.tex and hyphen.tex, produces hyphenation
results identical to those from TeX versions to 2.991. TeX 2.992 and (to a
lesser extent) 2.993, which were beta-releases of TeX 3.0, did have some
variations in this area, though nothing like as gross as the effects you
report above (which are the results of not setting \lefthyphenmin and   
\righthyphenmin correctly).

Chris Thompson
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