Re: Hyphenation of composed words

["Thomas Floeren" <thomas.floeren@boschung.com>]

Marco <> wrote on Monday, May 10, 2010 7:27 AM:

>> 1. || does *not* produce a en-dash but to kerned hyphens
> You're right, I looked it up in the sources. It just looked like an
> en-dash for me. But this is wrong. For hyphenation a hyphen is used.
> The 
> font designer has created a dedicated glyph for this purpose. And two
> hyphens (or an en-dash) is too large. I've never seen the advice in a
> typography book to kern two hyphens. I don't know why this is
> implemented like this.
> 
>> 2. The correct method to get a *normal* hyphen is
>> 
>>     \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]
>> 
> Yes, this is the correct method. It should be enabled by default. If
> somebody wants a larger hyphen (for some mysterious reasen), he/she
> can set it 
> up with
> 
> \setuphyphenmark[sign=wide]
> 

It seems that the en-dash *can* be used in English in some cases:
'high-priority--high-pressure tasks' from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen


>>     If the output is not correct it's a bug.
> Yes, it is a bug. Hans already confirmed and said, he'll fix it, but
> it is not 
> yet done, that's why I wanted to remember him. You can try and run
> the example from my first post. With Thomas' workaround the output is
> OK, but it is only a workaround. I (and probably many other users)
> would like to have correct 
> behaviour by default.
> 

Concerning the hyphen sign, '\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]' works as expected
on my system (= normal hyphen sign).
But it was (is?) not usable because, in case of a line break, the hyphen
sometimes was placed at the beginning of a new line.
With '\def\compoundhyphen{-}' the compound hyphen breaks correctly.

Thomas

> Marco
> 
> 
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