From: Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: automatic generation of em dash at the beginning of a line
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:34:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADawwoAPyS54wZW-1_=XbkqeCuJmi60VXrG_t0WnCqsXECm5eQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F3453D.9050505@wxs.nl>
Many Thanks Hans!
But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do
not need to repeat hyphens, but only em dashes (or en dashes, which
ever are used in the document) in situations like this.
Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space before
and after the em dash.
It should look like this:
Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style —
— insert a space before and after the em dash.
All Best
Piotr
2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
> On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with it.
>> According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end of a
>> line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one (true, it
>> is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in typesetting
>> programs). Is there any way to deal with it in ConTeX?
>
>
> \starttext
>
> \setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]
>
> \pl \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-01 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-01 16:41 Piotr Kopszak
2015-03-01 16:58 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-01 19:34 ` Piotr Kopszak [this message]
2015-03-02 9:02 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-02 11:00 ` Alan BRASLAU
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