From: Jeremy Hughes <jedahu@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: composed words and hanging punctuation
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:23:54 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpkixsad.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fx9uy1cd.fsf@gmail.com> (Jeremy Hughes's message of "Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:08:18 +1300")
I figured it out.
Jeremy Hughes <jedahu@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Dashes in composed words do not hang when hanging punctuation is
> used. When a line break falls after `whisky' in this sentence:
>
> the repellent whisky|-|craving woman
>
> the dash doesn't hang. To make the dash hang I resort to this:
>
> the repellent whisky-\allowbreak craving woman
>
> Is there a better way?
Added the following definitions:
\definetextmodediscretionary {} {\hyphenliketextmodediscretionary{–}{–}}
\definetextmodediscretionary - {\hyphenliketextmodediscretionary{-}{-}}
> A related question:
> I want |<| and |>| to allow breaking on either side.
>
> \zerowidthspace---\zerowidthspace
>
> works when placed directly in the text, but not when used as the
> definition of `leftsentence' in the `setuplanguage' command. How do I
> change this behavour?
And these ones:
\setuplanguage
[en]
[leftsentence={\allowbreak—},
rightsentence={—\allowbreak}]
Now it's all peachy :-)
Jeremy
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