From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12468 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Double bar means hyphen? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:14:18 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030613221418.1840@smtp.btinternet.com> References: <200306131531.41973.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055542637 5920 80.91.224.249 (13 Jun 2003 22:17:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Jun 14 00:17:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Qwpe-0001TI-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:15:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EF410B40; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:18:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from protactinium.btinternet.com (protactinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.176]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FD810AB6 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:14:26 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from dial81-131-225-211.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([81.131.225.211]) by protactinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #23) id 19QwoT-00052b-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:14:26 +0100 Original-To: In-Reply-To: <200306131531.41973.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 4.1.3 Carbon Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12468 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? || >-- >John Culleton >Able Typesetters and Indexers >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context@ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-