geyer@galton.uchicago.edu (Charles Geyer) (10/27/90)
The TeX 3.0 we have here performs the following terrible hyphenation: in response to \showhyphens{Younes} it echos \tenrm Y-ounes and splits the word as shown across a line break, while TeX 2.9 echos \tenrm Younes and refuses to break the word, which is right. Do we have a broken installation of 3.0 or is 3.0 itself broken? If the answer isn't obvious, what other attempts could be made to diagnose the problem? Charlie Geyer Department of Statistics University of Chicago geyer@galton.uchicago.edu
eijkhout@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (10/28/90)
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.