Thank you! It makes a big difference. I distinctly remember reading
somewhere that the hyphen character can't be replaced... But it was last
year so I couldn't tell you where.

I have an environment that provides the first ten Hebrew numerals, which I
am using for the front matter:

\def\hebrewnumber#1%
 {\ifcase#1 \or א
                \or ב
                \or ג
                \or ד
                \or ה
                \or ו
                \or ז
                \or ח
                \or ט
                \or י

                \else -\fi}

\defineconversion[hebrewnumerals][\hebrewnumber]

I assume that the right way to do it, that would allow for more numbers, is
in Lua, the way that Roman numerals are done. Unfortunately I couldn't
quite figure out how to do it. Right now I don't have more than ten pages
of front matter, but if you are willing to help with implementation, I  can
explain how Hebrew numerals work.

Thank you,
Marc Trius

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 3:51 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 5/26/2020 10:17 PM, Marc Trius wrote:
>
> > I would like to use a different hyphenation mark (־, U+05be) in Yiddish,
> > as it is the standard in that language. It's my understanding from
> > reading the wiki that this is currently impossible—I am wondering if
> > there is a hack that could accomplish this.
> It would be pretty bad if we couldn't do that ... but you need to define
> yiddish first (maybe more needs to be setup ... but that's up to you
> tolet us know, labels, what patterns and such).
>
> \installlanguage
>    [yiddish]
>    [righthyphenchar="05BE,
>     righthyphenchar=`*, % for testing
>     default=en]
>
> \starttext
>
> \input tufte
>
> \language[yiddish]
>
> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
>
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