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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
but hyphenation like mac-
hine really diminishes it.
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From the Adobe hyphenation dictionary:
LEFTHYPHENMIN 2
RIGHTHYPHENMIN 3
.in3es
m4achi
ma3ch2i.
From this, it looks like if there is no rule for a work, there will be at least 2 chars to the left of the hyphen, and 3 chars to the right of the hyphen.
As to the other definitions, I'm not sure what they mean. I think the dot means that this is a partial word. The numbers appear to be where the hyphens can go, they may be an indicator of how many chars are desired for a break.
It would be interesting to see if it breaks mach-ines differently than mac-hine.