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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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