![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/02a476cdfdfea19af9c2be1be1571d7d.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Wolfgang Schuster
Am 21.12.2010 um 00:34 schrieb Marco Pessotto:
See the following minimal example (I'm not trying to typeset urls or filesystem paths in this way, just regular text):
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \def\myslash{/\penalty-5000} \starttext
\type{/}
{\bfd Love/Hate/Play/Love/Hate/Play/Love/Hate/Play/Love/Hate/Play}
\type{\slash}
{\bfd Love\slash Hate\slash Play\slash Love\slash Hate\slash Play\slash Love\slash Hate\slash Play\slash Love\slash Hate\slash Play}
\type{\textslash}
{\bfd Love\textslash Hate\textslash Play\textslash Love\textslash Hate\textslash Play\textslash Love\textslash Hate\textslash Play\textslash Love\textslash Hate\textslash Play}
\type{\myslash}
{\bfd Love\myslash Hate\myslash Play\myslash Love\myslash Hate\myslash Play\myslash Love\myslash Hate\myslash Play\myslash Love\myslash Hate\myslash Play}
\stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Neither one of the first three solutions above give me the right thing, because the line won't break at /. What am I missing?
A workaround seems to be
\def\myslash{/\penalty-5000}
and then using \myslash instead of \slash, but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing this right.
MkIV: \setbreakpoints[compound]
Ah, that's odd, because I've already defined that and I didn't realize it fixed the problem (but I was used to type \slash from LaTeX, breaking the typesetting). This \setbreakpoints looks like a panacea to me (it already fixed the hyphen issue some weeks ago, but I didn't know it fixed the slash too). I'm thinking how to make this information more accessible (because from my point of view hate/love is not a compound word) on the wiki. I found this in cont-new.mkiv % potential new defaults: \setbreakpoints[compound] Is this going to happen or there are serious reasons not to have it as default? Thanks again -- Marco