At 6:33 -0600 10/05/05, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Consider the following typescript type-test.tex and and example file hanging.tex. When TeX hyphenates the word, the dash is kerned into the margin, but when a dash is manually inserted, no kerning occurs.
Hi Idriss, I tried both your example files on my installation (Gerben's TeX on Mac OS X and pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) ConTeXt ver: 2005.04.19 fmt: 2005.4.24 int: english mes: english). No difference is seen between the two ways of inserting the dash: there is a kerning into the margin as it should be (as far as I know...).
Note: in this example neither `-' nor \hyphen works, whereas in the previous posted problem \hyphen did work. This makes me think that this is a macro, not an engine, issue. Please help!
Here \hyphen, \endash and \emdash work correctly in both your example files. Probably the problem is located in your installation? Best regards: OK