Composed words: a simple way without a global replacement to |-|?

Composed words: a simple way without a global replacement to |-|?

[Marco Pessotto]

Dear list,

today I was reviewing the hyphenation and stumbled on the composed word
problem, as explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Composed_words
and in the ref-manual. 

Now, the trivial question sounds: is there a way to say to TeX "hey,
consider the hyphen inside words a good breakpoint"? 

If not, I'm going to do a global replacement of ([a-z])-([a-z]) to
$1|-|$2 , but somehow I feel I'm doing this wrong (because this will
harm to the readability of the source).

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Marco


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Re: Composed words: a simple way without a global replacement to |-|?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 27.11.2010 um 16:35 schrieb Marco Pessotto:

> 
> Dear list,
> 
> today I was reviewing the hyphenation and stumbled on the composed word
> problem, as explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Composed_words
> and in the ref-manual. 
> 
> Now, the trivial question sounds: is there a way to say to TeX "hey,
> consider the hyphen inside words a good breakpoint"? 

For MkIV you can add „\setbreakpoints[compound]“ to your document.

Wolfgang

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Re: Composed words: a simple way without a global replacement to |-|?

[Marco]

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:

> Am 27.11.2010 um 16:35 schrieb Marco Pessotto:
>
>> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> today I was reviewing the hyphenation and stumbled on the composed word
>> problem, as explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Composed_words
>> and in the ref-manual. 
>> 
>> Now, the trivial question sounds: is there a way to say to TeX "hey,
>> consider the hyphen inside words a good breakpoint"? 
>
> For MkIV you can add „\setbreakpoints[compound]“ to your document.
>

Thanks a lot, you saved my day. I've added the solution to
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Composed_words

-- 
Marco

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