Hello Is there a way in ConTeXt to allow line-breaking by default after an en or em dash (-- or ---)? The equivalent of \XeTeXdashbreakstate=1 I couldn't see anything after trying various searches. Conversely, is there a way of inhibiting ConTeXt from hyphenating an already hyphenated expression (great-grandfather etc.)? That is usually seen as a desperate last resort (which the user can invoke manually with \-). Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Virus-free.www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
On 7/6/2025 4:19 PM, John Was wrote:
Hello
Is there a way in ConTeXt to allow line-breaking by default after an en or em dash (-- or ---)? The equivalent of \XeTeXdashbreakstate=1
I couldn't see anything after trying various searches.
Just try: \starttext \hsize1mm test-test\par test---test\par test---test\par test+test\par \hccode`+=`+ test+test\par \hccode`+=`- test+test\par {great|-|\nohyphens grandfather}\par \stoptext
Conversely, is there a way of inhibiting ConTeXt from hyphenating an already hyphenated expression (great-grandfather etc.)? That is usually seen as a desperate last resort (which the user can invoke manually with \-).
Best wishes
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Am 06.07.2025 um 16:19 schrieb John Was:
Hello
Is there a way in ConTeXt to allow line-breaking by default after an en or em dash (-- or ---)? The equivalent of \XeTeXdashbreakstate=1
I couldn't see anything after trying various searches.
Conversely, is there a way of inhibiting ConTeXt from hyphenating an already hyphenated expression (great-grandfather etc.)? That is usually seen as a desperate last resort (which the user can invoke manually with \-).
\setbreakpoints[compound] \starttext \hsize\emwidth old-fashioned old+fashioned old-\unhyphenated{fashioned} \stoptext Wolfgang
Dear Hans and Wolfgang Thanks for these - I had discovered the hyphenation explanations on WiKi but was still getting odd effects, with the emdash plus following word sticking out at the right (though this was alleviated by adjusting tolerance and stretch). I'll keep watching for this but in case of difficulty I can always replace --- globally with something like \Emdash, defined as: ---\hskip 1sp It's more of a puzzle that ConTeXt allows hyphenation of an already hyphenated expression - I hadn't encountered this before with iterations of plain TeX so had never given it any thought. Any particular instance is easily suppressed as you indicated (or by putting the bit after the hyphen in an \hbox), though one then has to check that there aren't any unforeseen consequences elsewhere in the paragraph. But it's not exactly a huge problem! Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Virus-free.www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail <#m_-8229328929494425726_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 at 17:12, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Am 06.07.2025 um 16:19 schrieb John Was:
Hello
Is there a way in ConTeXt to allow line-breaking by default after an en or em dash (-- or ---)? The equivalent of \XeTeXdashbreakstate=1
I couldn't see anything after trying various searches.
Conversely, is there a way of inhibiting ConTeXt from hyphenating an already hyphenated expression (great-grandfather etc.)? That is usually seen as a desperate last resort (which the user can invoke manually with \-).
\setbreakpoints[compound]
\starttext
\hsize\emwidth
old-fashioned
old+fashioned
old-\unhyphenated{fashioned}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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