Re: Expand cont-ger.tex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:31 PM 11/15/99 +0100, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:

>These shorthands seem to be the only ones from german/babel not 
>implemented in cont-ger - why?

Since I don't use latex, I just implemented what tobias told me to implement. BTW, the shortcut mechanism is available for other purposes too, just take a look at supp-lan.tex 

>"-	allow hyphenation here, but do not disallow elsewhere, as \" 

||

>	does, used in OT1 encoded text containing e.g. umlauts
>""	insert \discretionary{}{}{} (empty breakpoint) here, 
>	used after solidi (/)

|/|    |)|   |(|

>"|	prevent ligatures, , allow break, insert \/;used e.g. when 1st
>	syllable ends "f" and second starts "l"
>"~	fixed dash, no breaks allowed (tying short abbreviation to word 
>	or leaving out first (repeated) part of a word
>"=	(like || ?) add \discretionary{-}{}{-}, allow break

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