The character is a compoundhyphen, actually created by mashing two hyphens together. Look at the definition in supp-lan.tex. It really doesn't work well in certain fonts where the hyphen is subtly shaped.
cheers, adam John Culleton said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400: >In some of the sample texts that come with Context (Zapf etc.) the double bar >is used to indicate a hyphen, perhaps an unbreakable hyphen. In pdftex it >translated to an em? dash instead. > >Is this combination documented somewhere? || >-- >John Culleton >Able Typesetters and Indexers >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
