At 04:47 PM 7/7/01 +0200, Eckhart Guth�hrlein wrote:
>At 09:11 06.07.2001 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Hans' solution is probably the best. But there really is no way to disable
>>ligatures without side-effects (you loose hyphenation)
>
>I looked into babel.sty and germanb.ldf how the shorthand "| is
>implemented. The following (stolen) definition allows me to prevent a
>ligature while allowing hyphenation at this place as well as before and
>afterwards in the same word. (With cmr, babel's choice of .03em looks good,
>I think.)
>
>\def\nolig{\nobreak\discretionary{-}{}{\kern.03em}\nobreak\hskip\z@skip} %
>(after changing the catcode of @)
>
>Is there any problem with that definition? If not, I would suggest
>including a similar command in ConTeXt, since ligatures in words like
>"Auflage" or "hinauffliegen" have to be corrected.
You german guys love shortcuts so much ...
\starttext
\definetextmodediscretionary :
{\prewordbreak\kern.25em:\space\ignorespaces}
\definetextmodediscretionary ;
{\prewordbreak\kern.25em:\space\ignorespaces}
\definetextmodediscretionary *
{\prewordbreak\discretionary{-}{}{\kern.05em}\postwordbreak}
\startlanguagespecifics[de]
\installcompoundcharacter "| {|*|}
\stoplanguagespecifics
\de \hyphenatedword{hinauff|*|liegen} \hyphenatedword{hinauff"|liegen}
\stoptext
i think that the : and ; are handy for french and we can still abuse the *
for the ligature killer (btw, this one is like |~|). I think that .05 is
better than .03
this only works with the version i uploaded saturday [the definable
discretionaries were needed for GB's speech module]
Hans
PS. Tobias, it this okay? If so, i'll move it into the lang modules.
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