[texhax] redefine hyphenmins for a fragment of text

[Aleksandar Zec]

2010/5/16 Pierre MacKay <pierre.mackay at comcast.net>:
> On 05/16/2010 09:37 AM, Aleksandar Zec wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a simple way to arbitrary redefine \righthyphenmin and
>> \lefthyphenmin just for a part of the document?
>>
>
> Absolutely.  you just do it.  You may be able to isolate the change in a
> \begingroup . . . \endgroup pair but, if you can't you can always restore
> the old values explicitly.
>
> I just tried the \begingroup \endgroup trick, and it seems to do the job
> very nicely.

So it's that simple. Thanks! More tests show you're right; example
code included below. What confused me is that (it seems that)
sometimes babel or polyglossia settings related to hyphenmins cause
that this isolating doesn't have a desired effect (cf.
\setlocalhyphenmins).

For now I have only a very complicated example; if I isolate the
problem in a small piece of code I'll post it here.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\begin{document}
\righthyphenmin=3
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}{2cm}
 1.\par
 administration\par
 2.\par
 text text
 administration\par
 3.\par
 text text
 administration\par
 \begingroup
  \righthyphenmin=11
   text text
   administration\par
 \endgroup
 4.\par
  text text
  administration\par
 5.\par
  \righthyphenmin=3
  text text
  administration\par
\end{minipage}
}
\end{document}

Many thanks,
Aleks