Re: hyphenation problem

[Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl>]

On 12 mei 2008, at 13:01, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> In dutch hyphenated accented characters loose there accent when
>> hyphenated: oö becomes o-o instead of o-ö. But the latter happens  
>> when
>> I process the code below. It happens both in mkii and mkiv. The  
>> number
>> of a's must be chosen so as to generate hyphenation between the two
>> o's. I tried this also with another font than lmodern, but got the
>> same result. What happened to (dutch) hyphenation?
>
> I do not believe this ever has worked, because it is not supported
> by Knuth's hyphenation algorithm, at all.
>
>
> In MkIV, the following (in utf-8!) will work:
>
> \language[nl]
> \setupbodyfont[lmodern,10pt]
> \hyphenation{co{-}{o}{ö}r-di-naat}
> \starttext
> hyphen test:
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> coördinaat
> \stoptext
>
> But not the example with the \" coding (and that likely never will).
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>

In my recollection this worked like a charm in the LaTeX-Babel package!

Hans van der Meer

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