Hair space and non-breaking hyphen

Hair space and non-breaking hyphen

[Maurí­cio]

Hi,

I've seen two interesting Unicode characters
that I would like to use:

Hair space: U+200A (it's supposed to be a
space that's small, used around emdashes
sometimes).

Non-breaking hyphen: U+2011 (an hyphen where
the word is not supposed to be broken by
hyphenation).

I would like to know if I can use them in
Context. Is Context going to respect
non-breaking hyphens in hyphenation
algorithms? Is hair space going to be what it
is supposed to, no matter which font I use?

Thanks,
Maurício

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Re: Hair space and non-breaking hyphen

[Hans Hagen]

Maurí­cio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen two interesting Unicode characters
> that I would like to use:
> 
> Hair space: U+200A (it's supposed to be a
> space that's small, used around emdashes
> sometimes).
> 
> Non-breaking hyphen: U+2011 (an hyphen where
> the word is not supposed to be broken by
> hyphenation).
> 
> I would like to know if I can use them in
> Context. Is Context going to respect
> non-breaking hyphens in hyphenation
> algorithms? Is hair space going to be what it
> is supposed to, no matter which font I use?

there is in mkiv a mechanism for auto-break support

\setbreakpoints[compound]

currently + - / ( ) are supported but it's no big deal to handle more 
characters too

however, i prefer to handle this all at once, so you (an others) need to 
collect al relevant cases and provide examples

also, more complex hyphenation exceptions are possible in luatex; 
currently we're experimenting with new dutch patterns but it's no 
problem to support other languages as well

Hans


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