Re: Hyphenation of composed words

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

Marco <> wrote on Friday, April 16, 2010 4:46 PM:

> Hi,
> 
> I've yet another hyphenation problem. I cannot get proper hyphenation
> in 
> composed words. Take this MWE:
> 
> \setuplayout [width=1.5cm]
> \starttext
> 
> composed-word\par	% not hyphenated, as expected
> composed||word\par	% wrong: hyphenated, but an en-dash is used,
> 			% not a hyphen, so [sign=wide] seems to be the default
> composed|-|word\blank	% wrong: hyphenated, but the hyphen is at the
> 			start of % the next line
> 
> \setuphyphenmark [sign=normal]	% For hyphenation a hyphen is used,
> 				% not an endash
> composed-word\par	% not hyphenated, as expected
> composed||word\par	% wrong: hyphen is at the start of the next line
> composed|-|word		% wrong: hyphen is at the start of the next line
> \blank[2*line]
> 
> \setbreakpoints [compound]	% my workaround
> composed-word\par	% correct hyphenation behaviour with hyphen
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> I hope with the comments the problem is clear. At first the default
> value for »sign« is wrong. It has to be »normal«. But with »normal« I
> cannot get the 
> hyphen at the end of the line, instead it always appeares at the
> beginning of 
> the next line.
> 

At the moment I use \def\compoundhyphen{-} instead of \setuphyphenmark.
It seems to work (mkii).

Thomas




> The workaround works but has the disadvantage that everything is
> hyphenated, everywhere. I prevent this at the moment by using bars:
>> not-a-composed-word|
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Marco
> 
> 
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