From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
To: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: hyphenate nothyphenated
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 17:57:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A5BB388-1A27-4678-8D3A-61030C7DA67E@st.estfiles.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210701095400.0a650853@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
> Am 01.07.2021 um 17:54 schrieb Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:12:40 +0200
> Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>>>> \= macron accent (bar) should not be changed.
>>>>
>>>> \-- is a good suggestion, like insisting, and should not get
>>>> confused with -- (en dash).
>>>
>>> Is there some problem to make it just another option.
>>>
>>> \enabledirectives[hyphenators.discretionary=hyphenated|nothyphenated]
>>>
>> or maybe some key is \setuplanguages (what key)
>
> Why not, but this would be somewhat obscure for the average user who
> would have to identify and then set this option in all documents...
>
> The \-- extension is kind-of nice, obscure in its own way but good
> functionally. The risk is of users confusing this with the en ligature,
> something that unicode users avoid...
>
> Maybe implement both solutions (setup affecting \- as well as \--) in
> Context?
And what about \– (U+2013)?
Steffen
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-29 10:06 Steffen Wolfrum
2021-06-29 11:52 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-30 17:35 ` Alan Braslau
2021-06-30 18:25 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-30 18:40 ` Alan Braslau
2021-06-30 18:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2021-06-30 22:12 ` Hans Hagen
2021-07-01 15:54 ` Alan Braslau
2021-07-01 15:57 ` Steffen Wolfrum [this message]
2021-07-01 16:05 ` Alan Braslau
2021-07-01 16:58 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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