Re: Expand cont-ger.tex

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

> >These shorthands seem to be the only ones from german/babel not 
> >implemented in cont-ger - why?
> 
> Since I don't use latex, I just implemented what tobias told me to
> implement. BTW, the shortcut mechanism is available for other purposes
> too, just take a look at supp-lan.tex 

My first impression is that a few and may be the most important 
breakpoint issues are 
met.

> >"-	allow hyphenation here, but do not disallow elsewhere, as \" 
> 
> ||

My typo, sorry: "- contrasts to \- and does not produce anything when 
not at a line break. || always produces a hyphen glyph.

> >	does, used in OT1 encoded text containing e.g. umlauts
> >""	insert \discretionary{}{}{} (empty breakpoint) here, 
> >	used after solidi (/)
> 
> |/|    |)|   |(|

Ahem, I meant only the solidus, not the parens. Taking the german.sty 
example, I want Ein"~/""Ausgang to become Ein-/¦Ausgang (the ¦ 
indicating the only breakpoint).

> || |-| |~| |--| |hello world| 

The active vertical bar trick seems to be rather flexible, but I am not 
yet sure if I can do a simple mapping that supports all features 
(deepingly hidden in quite some texts). I'll try to dig into 
supp-lan.tex later, 'though it does not seem to have typesettable docs.

In case you're interested, germanb.dtx in babel provides English 
documentation to what I was talking about.

Something like this may be right, but it produces a lot of errors (I 
inserted before \starttext, maybe just catcode problems:

\installcompoundcharacter "- 
  {\prewordbreak\discretionary{-}{}{}\postwordbreak}
\installcompoundcharacter ""
  {\prewordbreak\allowbreak\postwordbreak}
\installcompoundcharacter "|
  {\prewordbreak\discretionary{-}{}{\thinspace}\postwordbreak}
\installcompoundcharacter "~
  {\hbox{\compoundhyphen}}
\installcompoundcharacter "=
  {\prewordbreak\hbox{\compoundhyphen}\allowbreak\postwordbreak}

Karsten
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