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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Double bar means hyphen?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:21:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613222134.32655@smtp.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030613171213.A3372@atlas.cs.uga.edu>

Ed L Cashin said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400:

>I always use explicit hyphen like this:
>
>  Don't second|-|guess me.

If it really is always, you can save a little effort with:

\setuphyphenmark[sign=-]

(This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier: anyone notice how these
compound word marks *don't* interact well with font handling/hanging?)

adam
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-13 22:21 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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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