On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:50:53PM -0500, wmcclain@salamander.com wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400 John Culleton wrote:

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In some of the sample texts that come with Context (Zapf etc.) the double bar is used to indicate a hyphen, perhaps an unbreakable hyphen. In pdftex it translated to an em? dash instead.

Is this combination documented somewhere? ||

The default is supposed to be an en-dash, but this can be changed. See section 7.8 "Composed words" in "ConTeXt the Manual".

I always use explicit hyphen like this: Don't second|-|guess me. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

At 23:21 13/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Ed L Cashin said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400:

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I always use explicit hyphen like this:

Don't second|-|guess me.

If it really is always, you can save a little effort with:

\setuphyphenmark[sign=-]

(This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier: anyone notice how these compound word marks *don't* interact well with font handling/hanging?)

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