How to obtain a Polish en-dash?

How to obtain a Polish en-dash?

[Marcin Borkowski]

Hello,

in Polish we usually use "--" as a dash (between different parts of a
sequence, for instance), but we surround it by thin spaces (and the
left one is "hard", like "~").  Is there a way in ConTeXt (MkIV) to
obtain this behavior using some "tricky" syntax (like |--| or just --
surrounded by spaces) or is it better to define a custom command, like

\def\Polishdash{\unskip\kern 0.2em--\hskip 0.2em\ignorespaces}

(this is more or less taken from LaTeX's suite for Polish typesetting)?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Re: How to obtain a Polish en-dash?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 26.06.2012 um 23:31 schrieb Marcin Borkowski:

> Hello,
> 
> in Polish we usually use "--" as a dash (between different parts of a
> sequence, for instance), but we surround it by thin spaces (and the
> left one is "hard", like "~").  Is there a way in ConTeXt (MkIV) to
> obtain this behavior using some "tricky" syntax (like |--| or just --
> surrounded by spaces) or is it better to define a custom command, like
> 
> \def\Polishdash{\unskip\kern 0.2em--\hskip 0.2em\ignorespaces}
> 
> (this is more or less taken from LaTeX's suite for Polish typesetting)?


The output below is not perfect it demonstrates you the context mechanism for this.

\setuplanguage
  [pl]
  [ leftsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space},  % |<|
   rightsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space},  % |>|
     midsentence={\removeunwantedspaces\nobreakspace\endash\space},] % |=|

\mainlanguage[pl]

\starttext

left|<|middle|>|right

left|=|right

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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