composed words and hanging punctuation

composed words and hanging punctuation

[Jeremy Hughes]

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?


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?

Jeremy
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Re: composed words and hanging punctuation

[Jeremy Hughes]

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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