Re: a question of hyphenation policy

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> \s[-X]\H[+X]text to be kerned goes here\H[0]\s0

I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned
upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is.

As a practical approach to manually optimizing the line
breaks in a paragraph, I have found that twiddling the space
size using .ss often leads to acceptable results.  Also,
using \p (or .brp) to break-and-stretch a line earlier in a
paragraph can sometimes lead to nicer line breaks later on
in the paragraph.