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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Hyphenation of chemical names
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:57:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B72331.6080308@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160206131939.06aef3d8@cea.fr>

On 2/6/2016 9:19 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> ConTeXt has troubles hyphenating chemical names, which in organic
> chemistry  can be funny things such as
> N-(4-n-alkoxybenzylidene)-4’-alkylaniline.
> The names can get much worse...
>
> The rules for hyphenating in chemistry are well defined. Without
> putting specific hyphenating hints into the names themselves, I do not
> know how to go about adding these rules into ConTeXt. Of course, they
> can differ slightly by language, but the system is pretty much the same.
>
> Does anyone know how to deal with this?
>
> Maybe we need special rules that get applied within \chemical{}?

sure, we can make a rule set, given that these names are somehow tagged 
.. just come up with the rules

Hans

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2016-02-06 20:19 Alan BRASLAU
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