Re: [NTG-context] automatic generation of em dash at the beginning of a line

2 Mar 2015

      How about

Most newspapers |<|and all that follow AP style|>| insert a space
before and after the em dash.

Might I suggest that this could/should be set|-|up in Polish to repeat
the (second) emdash if it is followed by a line break?

Alan

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:02:53 +0100
Hans Hagen  wrote:
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On 3/1/2015 8:34 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
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Many Thanks Hans!
But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do
not need to repeat hyphens, but only  em dashes (or en dashes, which
ever are used in the document) in situations like this.
Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space
before and after the em dash.
It should look like this:
Most newspapers — and all that follow  AP style —
— insert a space before and  after the em dash.
\starttext
\def\LEFT {\space\emdash\nbsp}
\def\RIGHT{\nbsp\discretionary{\emdash}{\emdash}{\emdash}\nbsp}
\setuplayout[width=21mm]
\setuplayout[width=24mm]
\setuptolerance[verytolerant]
\showframe
test test \LEFT a test and some more test\RIGHT\ test test
\stoptext
...
All Best
Piotr
2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen :
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On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
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Hello list,
This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with
it. According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end
of a line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one
(true, it is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in
typesetting programs). Is there any way to deal with it in
ConTeX?
\starttext
\setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]
\pl \input tufte
\stoptext
-- 
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Re: [NTG-context] automatic generation of em dash at the beginning of a line

Alan BRASLAU