Re: [Groff] Letterspacing

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I think many publishers (including the ones I work for) do not like
>> leaving two letters of a word before or after a break.
> 
> I stand admonished.  In German, it appears quite natural to split
> off two-letter pre- and suffixes, and the English hyphenation rules
> often allow it as well.

If the line length is sufficiently large, I restrict the hyphenation
to three letters before and after a hyphenation.  However, if the
columns get small, having hyphenation after two characters is *always*
preferable to large whitespace gaps.


    Werner