Re: two questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:58 AM 7/9/01 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>> 
>> At 09:11 06.07.2001 +0000, you wrote:
>> \def\nolig{\nobreak\discretionary{-}{}{\kern.03em}\nobreak\hskip\z@skip} %
>> (after changing the catcode of @)
>> 
>> Is there any problem with that definition? If not, I would suggest
>> including a similar command in ConTeXt, since ligatures in words like
>> "Auflage" or "hinauffliegen" have to be corrected.
>
>Not really a problem, but it also allows hyphenation at this point, and
>ensures that hyphenation for the partial (left&right) words is also
>possible.
>This isn't always desired, I think. So there should be two commands I
>guess. One to just block ligatures, and another that does what babel
>does.

taco, do you remember what the proposed [etex] lig prevention primitive
was? \nolig or \noligs or so [lots my notes] and what is the most robust
definition? \kern\zeropoint? 

Hans
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