From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: automatic generation of em dash at the beginning of a line
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:02:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F4273D.3060009@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADawwoAPyS54wZW-1_=XbkqeCuJmi60VXrG_t0WnCqsXECm5eQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/1/2015 8:34 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> Many Thanks Hans!
>
> But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do
> not need to repeat hyphens, but only em dashes (or en dashes, which
> ever are used in the document) in situations like this.
>
> Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space before
> and after the em dash.
>
> It should look like this:
>
> Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style —
> — insert a space before and after the em dash.
\starttext
\def\LEFT {\space\emdash\nbsp}
\def\RIGHT{\nbsp\discretionary{\emdash}{\emdash}{\emdash}\nbsp}
\setuplayout[width=21mm]
\setuplayout[width=24mm]
\setuptolerance[verytolerant]
\showframe
test test \LEFT a test and some more test\RIGHT\ test test
\stoptext
> All Best
>
> Piotr
>
> 2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
>> On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with it.
>>> According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end of a
>>> line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one (true, it
>>> is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in typesetting
>>> programs). Is there any way to deal with it in ConTeX?
>>
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]
>>
>> \pl \input tufte
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-01 16:41 Piotr Kopszak
2015-03-01 16:58 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-01 19:34 ` Piotr Kopszak
2015-03-02 9:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-03-02 11:00 ` Alan BRASLAU
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