From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17673 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Hyphenation peculiarity. Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:54:33 -0500 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200412281754.33849.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104329327 6246 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 14:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 29 15:08:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjeVE-0002Si-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3630D127AA; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:08:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25462-06; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:08:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA271279C; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:05:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C28E1279C for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:05:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25459-02 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:04:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mta7.adelphia.net (unknown [68.168.78.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160011276B for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:04:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net ([69.174.190.44]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20041228230327.IRQN5807.mta13.adelphia.net@69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net> for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:03:27 -0500 Original-To: ConTeXt users User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17673 I noted that context seems to be most reluctant to hyphenate. So I ran a test file through plain tex, pdftex and Context and checked the results. Context hyphenated less than the other two. The manual does not say much about hyphenation. I am using a fresh TeXLive install. Here is the top part of the log----------------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2004.12.28) 28 DEC 2004 17:14 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) **&cont-en hypph.tex (./hypph.tex ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.17 fmt: 2004.12.28 int: english mes: english language : language en is active Here is the test file-------------------------------------------- \hsize 2in \input knuth.tex \bye It seems to act as if the hyphenation dictionary weren't here. If I put in a discretionary hyphen Context will use it. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf