Re: Swedish in lang-ger.tex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:50 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, Gilles Pérez-Lambert wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Le 5 déc. 2002 à 21 h 52 (+0100, CET), Stefan Karlsson a dit :
> > Well, in the generated text is should be "--" with a space before and
> > after. In
> > my _opinion_ the spaces should be unbreakable.
>
>But this would make TeX life impossible. In French, too, some thinks
>spaces before and after ``---'' should be unbreakble but it is not
>possible (and in French typography ``---'' floats freely).

a reasonable alternative is:

text --<nonbreakable space>hyphenatable text<nonbreakable space>-- text

[when you use |<|.....|>| you get that behavior, and also handling of 
nested ones]

Hans

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