Am 26.06.2012 um 23:31 schrieb Marcin Borkowski:

Hello,

in Polish we usually use "--" as a dash (between different parts of a sequence, for instance), but we surround it by thin spaces (and the left one is "hard", like "~"). Is there a way in ConTeXt (MkIV) to obtain this behavior using some "tricky" syntax (like |--| or just -- surrounded by spaces) or is it better to define a custom command, like

\def\Polishdash{\unskip\kern 0.2em--\hskip 0.2em\ignorespaces}

(this is more or less taken from LaTeX's suite for Polish typesetting)?

The output below is not perfect it demonstrates you the context mechanism for this. \setuplanguage [pl] [ leftsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space}, % |<| rightsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space}, % |>| midsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space},] % |=| \mainlanguage[pl] \starttext left|<|middle|>|right left|=|right \stoptext Wolfgang