From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Double bar means hyphen?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:14:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613221418.1840@smtp.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306131531.41973.john@wexfordpress.com>
The character is a compoundhyphen, actually created by mashing two
hyphens together. Look at the definition in supp-lan.tex.
It really doesn't work well in certain fonts where the hyphen is subtly
shaped.
cheers,
adam
John Culleton said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400:
>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? ||
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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
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 [this message]
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