Hi,

Werner wrote:
> As mentioned above, the hyphenation patterns are constructed with
> certain \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin values.  However, those
> values are *not* present in the hyphenation patterns – you have to
> know them (I consider this a design bug in TeX).  In other words, only
> the user knows that values 16 or 32 are valid for a given language's
> hyphenation patterns or not.

Could groff pluck optional left and right minimums from the filename,
e.g. `hyphen.us'?  Or allow an optional extra file based on that name
that has them as content?

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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