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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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