Re: Hyphenation of composed words

[Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>]

> It seems that the en-dash *can* be used in English in some cases:
> 'high-priority--high-pressure tasks' from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen
I see. But this is a --more or less-- contructed case where using an
en-dash instead of a hyphen makes sense. I agree with this example, the
en-dash clearifies things.

But for general purpose the hyphen is used and not the en-dash. And I
think the typesetting system should be set up to fit the general
purpose. (Hans has a different opinion, I know.)

BTW: If the appearance of the hyphen is unsatisfying it is better to
choose a different font (or hyphen from a different font) or maybe to
»correct« the font instead of altering settings of the typesetting
system.

> Concerning the hyphen sign, '\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]' works as
> expected on my system (= normal hyphen sign).
> But it was (is?) not usable because, in case of a line break, the
> hyphen sometimes was placed at the beginning of a new line.
You're right. I mixed things up. My fault. It always produced the right
sign. And the bug is fixed (Thanks Hans!). So you can use

\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]

again in your cont-sys.tex ;-)

> With '\def\compoundhyphen{-}' the compound hyphen breaks correctly.
Not needed any more.

Marco


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