hyphenating \ConTeXt

hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Pablo Rodriguez]

Dear list,

how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command?

Many thanks for your help,


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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Marco Patzer]

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On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command?

\ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes,
both of which suppress hyphenation. AFAIK there's no easy way around
it.

That having said you can surely redefine the \TeX macro to include
custom hyphenation points using \discretionary. Here an example
which inserts a hyphenation point after the “T”:

\unexpanded\def\TeX
  {\dontleavehmode
   \begingroup
   \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{M}%%
   T%%
   \discretionary{-}{}{\kern-.1667\wd\scratchbox}
   \lower.5ex\hbox{E}%%
   \kern-.125\wd\scratchbox
   X%%
   \endgroup}

\starttext
  \hsize\zeropoint
  \ConTeXt
\stoptext

> Many thanks for your help,

My help is conditional in this case. Don't ever let me know *why*
you actually want to do this ;)

Marco

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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> 
>> how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command?
> 
> \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes,
> both of which suppress hyphenation. AFAIK there's no easy way around
> it.

Many thanks for your help, Marco.

I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt).

Sorry for having to explain that ;-), but I’m writing an introduction to
ConTeXt in Spanish. I had already rewritten two sentences in less than
five pages to avoid the not-hyphenated ConTeXt word.

Is there no simpler way to do this?

Many thanks for your help,


Pablo
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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Aditya Mahajan]

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
>> On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command?
>>
>> \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes,
>> both of which suppress hyphenation. AFAIK there's no easy way around
>> it.
>
> Many thanks for your help, Marco.
>
> I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt).
>
> Sorry for having to explain that ;-), but I’m writing an introduction to
> ConTeXt in Spanish. I had already rewritten two sentences in less than
> five pages to avoid the not-hyphenated ConTeXt word.
>
> Is there no simpler way to do this?

\starttext

\hsize 4mm

\CONTEXT

\def\CONTEXT{Con\discretionary{}{-}{}\TeX{}t}

\CONTEXT

% Or if you dislike the way TeX is typeset

\def\CONTEXT{ConTeXt}

\CONTEXT

\stoptext

Aditya

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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 01/17/2014 07:18 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt).
>>
>> Sorry for having to explain that ;-), but I’m writing an introduction to
>> ConTeXt in Spanish. I had already rewritten two sentences in less than
>> five pages to avoid the not-hyphenated ConTeXt word.
>>
>> Is there no simpler way to do this?
> [...]
> \def\CONTEXT{Con\discretionary{}{-}{}\TeX{}t}

Many thanks, Aditya.

This was exactly what I wanted. I didn’t know of the existence of the
\discretionary command.


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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Marco Patzer]

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On 2014–01–17 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> > On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> >> how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command?
> > 
> > \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes,
> > both of which suppress hyphenation. AFAIK there's no easy way around
> > it.
> 
> Many thanks for your help, Marco.
> 
> I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt).

Sometimes I'm missing the obvious and make things more complicated
than necessary.

> Sorry for having to explain that ;-),

It's not you, it's me :)

> Is there no simpler way to do this?

See Aditya's answer.

Marco

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Re: hyphenating \ConTeXt

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 01/17/2014 08:04 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On 2014–01–17 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt).
> 
> Sometimes I'm missing the obvious and make things more complicated
> than necessary.

Many thanks for the reply and for your help, Marco.

I wonder whether it would make sense to enable \ConTeXt hyphenation by
default.

Just in case it might help,


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