Dear list, I have constructed a better example (and eliminated a grammar error), see below. I think what »|-|« does is essentially »-\penalty\zerocount\hskip\zeropoint«. When I insert this as is the margin kerning is correct. Still, I have no idea how to fix |-|.
Cheers, Henri --- \showframe \setuppapersize[A6][A6] \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext % this is margin kerned Hyphenation of compound words is non-trivial % this should be margin kerned but isn't Hyphenation of compound words is non|-|trivial % this does the same as |-| (?) and kerns properly Hyphenation of compound words is non-\penalty\zerocount\hskip\zeropoint\relax trivial \stoptext On 09/08/2016 10:52 AM, Henri Menke wrote: > Dear list, > > when writing compound words I want the second part to be eligible for > hyphenation to avoid bad breaks. Therefore, instead of »non-trivial« I write > »non|-|trivial«. However, I noticed that when I make dash compound aware it > is no longer kerned into the margin. MWE is below. How can I fix this? > > Cheers, Henri > > --- > > \showframe > \setuppapersize[A6][A6] > \definefontfeature > [default][default] > [protrusion=quality] > > \setupalign[hanging] > \starttext > % this is margin kerned > Hyphenation is of compound words is non-trivial > > % this should be margin kerned but isn't > Hyphenation is of compound words is non|-|trivial > \stoptext > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
