Re: hyphenation and umlauts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:17 PM 9/16/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:37:33 +0200
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> > At 11:07 PM 9/14/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> > >Thanks, but
> > >\hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis-dig-te}
> > >
> > >gives
> > >! Improper \hyphenation will be flushed.
> > >\dobuildtextaccent #1#2->{
> > >                           \let \char \normalaccent #1\let \char
> > > \normalchar #2}
> > >l.5 \hyphenation{Kriegs-ge-sch\adiaeresis
> > >                                          -dig-te}
> > >?
> > >
> > >Any hints?
> >
> > hm, so it looks like you're in default encoding, not in 8 bit; how about
>
>Can you tell me, what i should do for 7-bit-encoding?
>
> > \setupbodyfont[ppl,10pt]
> > \hyphenation{...}
>
>This works, but i need CM-fonts and
>
> > \setupencoding[ec]
> > \hyphenation{...}
>
>still gives the error.

this is because hyphenation is only possible for 'pure chars' not for 
composed ones (i.e. composed by \accent or macros)

>BTW: Is there a difference between \setupencoding[ec] and
>   \setupencoding[default=ec]?

mostly the time it's set: \setupencoding does an immediate set, the default 
is just the fallback in case a font has no associated encoding (normally 
font switches will set the encoding)

Hans

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