> o hyphenation template. This template should IMHO be dropped. The only
> important parameters it sets are (ex)hyphenpenalty which can be moved
> to the linebreak template.
There exist quite simple change files that enables TeX to assign
different penalties to different hyphen points.
If this makes it into eTeX or pdfTeX, more parameters can be set. How
many depends on the hyphenation patterns used. So the hyphenation
settings becomes even more language dependent.