Re: Expand cont-ger.tex

[Karsten Tinnefeld <tinne@goedel.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

> >\startlanguagespecifics[nl]
> >  \installcompoundcharacter "a {\"a}
> >  \installcompoundcharacter "e {\"e}
> >  \installcompoundcharacter "o {\"o}
> >\stoplanguagespecifics

> German users are very accustomed to this "<a><b> convention which is 
> why it is default there. If I would make it default for dutch, it could
> break existing documents with normal "'s. Although, as long as one never
> uses " '' `` but \quote and \quotation instead, making " active is pretty
> safe.

What I really learned to love about german.sty/germanb.lfd are the tie 
setting rules - so far that I use to apply them in my English texts as well.
(I'm not so much into "u's as I rely on \benutzekodierung[win]/
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}.)

"= seems to be the same as || in \CONTEXT, as Eui||feest in the 
introduction suggests.

These shorthands seem to be the only ones from german/babel not 
implemented in cont-ger - why?

"-	allow hyphenation here, but do not disallow elsewhere, as \" 
	does, used in OT1 encoded text containing e.g. umlauts
""	insert \discretionary{}{}{} (empty breakpoint) here, 
	used after solidi (/)
"|	prevent ligatures, , allow break, insert \/;used e.g. when 1st
	syllable ends "f" and second starts "l"
"~	fixed dash, no breaks allowed (tying short abbreviation to word 
	or leaving out first (repeated) part of a word
"=	(like || ?) add \discretionary{-}{}{-}, allow break
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