From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1228 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: emdash(?) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:42:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991115094215.00809d70@pop.wxs.nl> References: <009d01bf2f39$f1b16780$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392062 30995 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-To: "Berend de Boer" In-Reply-To: <009d01bf2f39$f1b16780$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1228 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1228 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------