[NTG-context] Re: italian words with apostrophe - hyphenation and discretionary

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Tomáš and Massi,

> I chose this one:
> 
> nell\discretionary{a}{}{'}opera
> 
> It's not a general solution, but it's a local, elegant fix.
> 
> In my case I had "dell’Informazione", hyphenated as "del-l’Informazione".
> That hyphenation is fine in general, but here it happens at the end of 
> an odd page, so that you must turn the page to see what comes after "del-".
> 
> Now the page ends with "della", and the next one starts with 
> "Informazione". Which is typographically better.
> 
> If the text preceding those words changes, they may end in the middle of 
> a line, but as "dell’Informazione" instead of "della Informazione".
> 
> Moreover, I found a way to make it work with my XML workflow.
> It's actually something like this:
> 
> ... dell<ctx>\discretionary{a}{}{</ctx>’<ctx>}</ctx>Informazione ...
> 
> Think of the <ctx> tag as a way to inject ConTeXt code that is not part 
> of the contents of the document, but it's important for a particular 
> typesetting layout.
> 
> Once you expunge the <ctx> tags, you get back the pure, intact content:
> 
> ... dell’Informazione ...

There's a fourh way ...

\starttext

\startexceptions
     nell{a}{}{a'}opera
\stopexceptions

\start \hsize 10cm nella'opera \par \stop
\start \hsize 01mm nella'opera \par \stop

\start \hsize 10cm nell\discretionary{a}{}{'}opera \par \stop
\start \hsize 01mm nell\discretionary{a}{}{'}opera \par \stop

\stoptext



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