From: Barry Schwartz <schwartz@cross-works.com>
Subject: Re: the dash from "||"
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:12:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000208161203.O14326@cross-works.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38A086F7.8660F73F@gmx.de>; from Tobias Burnus on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:13:27PM +0100
Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I sometimes wonder why the dash produced by "||" is so big:
> > la-la la--la la$-$la la||la
I have used "|-|" to get a hyphen of the first kind.
> \def\compoundhyphen {{-}\kern-.25ex{-}}
This assumes a horizontal hyphen. I just tried "||" with Adobe
Garamond, which has a non-horizontal hyphen, and the result was
amusing: it looked a bit like a broken stick. :)
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Barry Schwartz
CrossWorks, Inc.
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home: Barry.Schwartz@acm.org
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2000-02-08 20:34 Ed L. Cashin
2000-02-08 21:13 ` Tobias Burnus
2000-02-08 22:12 ` Barry Schwartz [this message]
2000-02-08 22:04 the dash from || pragma
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