Re: Double bar means hyphen?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 23:21 13/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Ed L Cashin said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400:
>
> >I always use explicit hyphen like this:
> >
> >  Don't second|-|guess me.
>
>If it really is always, you can save a little effort with:
>
>\setuphyphenmark[sign=-]
>
>(This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier: anyone notice how these
>compound word marks *don't* interact well with font handling/hanging?)

yes, sometimes they are boxed thingies and they don't hang; for this the 
concept of hanging should be extended (something \hangme {left} {right} 
{material}); i discussed this long ago with thanh but it didn't (yet) end 
up in pdftex -)

Hans
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