Re: a question of hyphenation policy

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> > I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned
> > upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is.
> 
> Tadziu, were you referring to your language (where I *think*
> hyphenation would always be necessary)?

Sorry if my wording was a bit vague.  I was referring to
hyphenation on multiple consecutive lines, which is sometimes
stated as something to avoid.  The point I was trying to make
is that multiple consecutive hyphenated lines is still often
the lesser evil compared to some of the proposed solutions.

Personally, I have no problems with consecutive hyphenated
lines at all, or even with hyphenating the last line of a page.

What I find much more jarring is letterspacing words just to
avoid larger interword spaces.  I find the latter acceptable,
but the former disruptive even at fairly small amounts.