From: wmcclain@salamander.com
Subject: Re: Double bar means hyphen?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:50:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613145053.145e7e27.wmcclain@salamander.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306131531.41973.john@wexfordpress.com>
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400
John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> In some of the sample texts that come with Context (Zapf etc.) the
> double bar is used to indicate a hyphen, perhaps an unbreakable
> hyphen. In pdftex it translated to an em? dash instead.
>
> Is this combination documented somewhere? ||
The default is supposed to be an en-dash, but this can be changed. See
section 7.8 "Composed words" in "ConTeXt the Manual".
-Bill
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-13 19:31 John Culleton
2003-06-13 19:43 ` Phil Rooke
2003-06-13 19:50 ` wmcclain [this message]
2003-06-13 21:12 ` Ed L Cashin
2003-06-13 22:21 ` Adam Lindsay
2003-06-14 8:57 ` Hans Hagen
2003-06-16 13:08 ` Adam T. Lindsay
2003-06-13 22:14 ` Adam Lindsay
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