> It seems that the en-dash *can* be used in English in some cases: > 'high-priority--high-pressure tasks' from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen I see. But this is a --more or less-- contructed case where using an en-dash instead of a hyphen makes sense. I agree with this example, the en-dash clearifies things.
But for general purpose the hyphen is used and not the en-dash. And I think the typesetting system should be set up to fit the general purpose. (Hans has a different opinion, I know.) BTW: If the appearance of the hyphen is unsatisfying it is better to choose a different font (or hyphen from a different font) or maybe to »correct« the font instead of altering settings of the typesetting system. > Concerning the hyphen sign, '\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal]' works as > expected on my system (= normal hyphen sign). > But it was (is?) not usable because, in case of a line break, the > hyphen sometimes was placed at the beginning of a new line. You're right. I mixed things up. My fault. It always produced the right sign. And the bug is fixed (Thanks Hans!). So you can use \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] again in your cont-sys.tex ;-) > With '\def\compoundhyphen{-}' the compound hyphen breaks correctly. Not needed any more. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________