emdash(?)

emdash(?)

[Berend de Boer]

Hai All,

Is there a standard emdash in ConTeXt? I.e. not depending on certain font
properties like:

	this is ---more often than not--- what I mean

For certain fonts '-' cannot be put together because it looks very odd when
the '-' is not exactly a line, but something more embellished.

If ConTeXt doesn't have this, how long should such an emdash be? I call it
an emdash but I think it probably is twice as large as that.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: emdash(?)

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:20 AM 11/15/99 +0100, Berend de Boer wrote:

>Is there a standard emdash in ConTeXt? I.e. not depending on certain font
>properties like:
>
>	this is ---more often than not--- what I mean
>
>For certain fonts '-' cannot be put together because it looks very odd when
>the '-' is not exactly a line, but something more embellished.
>
>If ConTeXt doesn't have this, how long should such an emdash be? I call it
>an emdash but I think it probably is twice as large as that.

The instrument is: 

  this is |<|more often than not|>| what I mean 

Using || takes care of hyphenation and spacing. In the language setup files, you will see the way the dash is hooked into the language. If you run into troubles with fonts, I think we should add something emdash (like guillemots, do a grep on them) so that a font encoding definition can adapt it to the font. Just collect me the right glyphs.

The compound word dash (||) is by default slightly longer than the single - and composed of two overlapping -'s. The reason for this is that I want to distinguish a hyphen from a compound hyphen but also wants them both to have equal height.  

Hans

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