On 10/14/2020 2:09 PM, Denis Maier wrote:

Hi, has \zwnj (or the equivalent unicode character) bad consequences for hyphenation? Like, when you'd preprocess your files and add \zwnj in appropriate places, will that break hyphenation for these words? So, this:

\mainlanguage[nl] \startexceptions[nl] wis-kun-d{e-}{o}{eo}(e-o)n-der-wijs \stopexceptions wiskundeonderwijs \hsize 1mm wiskundeonderwijs results in wiskunde-onderwijs wis- kun- de- on- der- wijs with proper kerning and ligatures when applicable and \startexceptions[nl] wis-kun-d{e-}{o}{eo}(e\zwj o)n-der-wijs \stopexceptions will do the same but no compound dash. It's actually mostly a matter of communicating with the font handler (without hard coding solutions in the engine). As a side effect (teaser) you can do this in the upcoming lmtx: \definefontfeature[whatever][default][mode=base] \definefont[myfont][Serif*whatever] {\myfont test effe every}\quad { test effe every}\par {\myfont \nokerning test effe every}\quad { \nokerning test effe every}\par {\myfont \noligaturing test effe every}\quad { \noligaturing test effe every}\par {\myfont test effe e{\nokerning v}ery}\quad { test effe e{\nokerning v}ery}\par with \nokerning and \noligaturing being macros that set some options (the old \noligs and \nokerns have therefore been dropped) ... so one has local control over matters (base mode and node mode). one can even control left/right kerning/ligaturing this way but that's something to be explained in some article or at some user meeting or so (after all i occasionally need something new to tell) so, in the end all you have to do is come up with a list of exceptions Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------