From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Marc Trius <derpayatz@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Change hyphenation mark
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:59:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6be91547-7d8e-cc22-4902-dfa0758d901b@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOz1Uf2Getqkz1bJ=3mgrg+87vEug=-V2Lna1aNOKARjaK7VA@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/26/2020 11:30 PM, Marc Trius wrote:
> Thank you! It makes a big difference. I distinctly remember reading
> somewhere that the hyphen character can't be replaced... But it was last
> year so I couldn't tell you where.
hm, i think it always could be changed, but afaik only luatex can do
that per language within a paragraph as it stores language properties
with the characters
> I have an environment that provides the first ten Hebrew numerals, which
> I am using for the front matter:
>
> \def\hebrewnumber#1%
> {\ifcase#1 \or א
> \or ב
> \or ג
> \or ד
> \or ה
> \or ו
> \or ז
> \or ח
> \or ט
> \or י
>
> \else -\fi}
>
> \defineconversion[hebrewnumerals][\hebrewnumber]
> I assume that the right way to do it, that would allow for more numbers,
> is in Lua, the way that Roman numerals are done. Unfortunately I
> couldn't quite figure out how to do it. Right now I don't have more than
> ten pages of front matter, but if you are willing to help with
> implementation, I can explain how Hebrew numerals work.
Ok, let's do that off-list then
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2020-05-26 20:17 Marc Trius
2020-05-26 20:51 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-26 21:30 ` Marc Trius
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