Many Thanks Hans! But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do not need to repeat hyphens, but only em dashes (or en dashes, which ever are used in the document) in situations like this. Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space before and after the em dash. It should look like this: Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — — insert a space before and after the em dash. All Best Piotr 2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen :

On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:

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Hello list,

This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with it. According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end of a line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one (true, it is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in typesetting programs). Is there any way to deal with it in ConTeX?

\starttext

\setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]

\pl \input tufte

\stoptext

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How about Most newspapers |<|and all that follow AP style|>| insert a space before and after the em dash. Might I suggest that this could/should be set|-|up in Polish to repeat the (second) emdash if it is followed by a line break? Alan On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:02:53 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 3/1/2015 8:34 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:

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Many Thanks Hans!

But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do not need to repeat hyphens, but only em dashes (or en dashes, which ever are used in the document) in situations like this.

Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space before and after the em dash.

It should look like this:

Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — — insert a space before and after the em dash.

\starttext

\def\LEFT {\space\emdash\nbsp} \def\RIGHT{\nbsp\discretionary{\emdash}{\emdash}{\emdash}\nbsp}

\setuplayout[width=21mm] \setuplayout[width=24mm]

\setuptolerance[verytolerant]

\showframe

test test \LEFT a test and some more test\RIGHT\ test test

\stoptext

...

All Best

Piotr

2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen :

...

On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:

...

Hello list,

This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with it. According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end of a line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one (true, it is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in typesetting programs). Is there any way to deal with it in ConTeX?

\starttext

\setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]

\pl \input tufte

\stoptext

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