> The thing is that - in Swedish - compuond words in which the first part > ends in a double consonant when a word by itself and the second part > starts with the same letter get this letter in triplicate when > hyphenated. Example: "tillaga" (make (food)) is hyphenated "till-laga" > since it is made from the words "till" (to) and "laga" (make, prepare > (repair)). Other examples are 'missa"mja' -> 'miss-sa"mja' > (dissension), "kalluft" -> "kall-luft" (cold air), and "uppassare" -> > "upp-passare" (~servant). > > Correct hyphenation of such words are on my "wish-list" for LaTeX3. :-) Correct hyphenation of compound words (in languages that have special rules for them) is AIUI something that can't be dealt with by an unmodified Laing algorithm. As a result, it requires something that's not TeX, let alone `not current LaTeX'... Petr Sojka has done some very interesting work in this area ... see his papers on hyphenation in the last two EuroTeXs, and in various issues of TUGboat. I don't recall off-hand whether his work addresses the split-doubles issue, but it's worth reviewing. Robin F