> > You're right, I looked it up in the sources. It just looked like an > > en-dash for me. But this is wrong. For hyphenation a hyphen is > > used. The font designer has created a dedicated glyph for this > > purpose. And two hyphens (or an en-dash) is too large. I've never > > seen the advice in a typography book to kern two hyphens. I don't > > know why this is implemented like this. > > because we needed it to be this way: we use it for separating > compound words and then we want to have the hyphen between the > compounds to be different from the ones within That's not how it is done in everyday typography, seems to be more a border case.
> .. also, the reason for kerned hyphens instead of an endash is simple: > the endash is too thin (at least in lm) That's true. The en-dash is condiderably thinner. > this works ok here (and i'm prety sure that it's also ok a few betas > ago) > > \starttext > > test||test > > \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] > > test||test > > test|-|test > > \stoptext Sure, my fault. This works. There _was_ a bug with the hyphen appearing on the start of the next line. This is fixed. Thank you. I thought you would also fix the »wrong« hyphenation sign, so I didn't check, just assumed that both issues aren't fixed. So \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] works now as expected (even if it's not the default). Thanks for this fix. > and the defaults are unlikely to change, but you can set it in your > local cont-sys.tex file Ah, I see. I was not aware of a user configuration file (wiki helps how to set it up I just looked). So I can put my »personal« default hyphen there. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
