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The shipped format for latex in tetex-latex-0.9-17 has set \lefthyphenmin=-1 \righthyphenmin=0 These should be 2 and 3 for english, respectively. Netnews articles suggest this is caused by using an outdated version of the beta babel package.
In the /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/hyphen.ltx file in 0.9-17, these parameters are set correctly with \lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=3 ------- Email Received From Ed Sznyter <ews@SD.Market.NET> 06/01/99 18:47 -------