How about
Most newspapers |<|and all that follow AP style|>| insert a space
before and after the em dash.
Might I suggest that this could/should be set|-|up in Polish to repeat
the (second) emdash if it is followed by a line break?
Alan
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:02:53 +0100
Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 3/1/2015 8:34 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> > Many Thanks Hans!
> >
> > But that's not exactly what I need, sorry for being imprecise, I do
> > not need to repeat hyphens, but only em dashes (or en dashes, which
> > ever are used in the document) in situations like this.
> >
> > Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style — insert a space
> > before and after the em dash.
> >
> > It should look like this:
> >
> > Most newspapers — and all that follow AP style —
> > — insert a space before and after the em dash.
>
> \starttext
>
> \def\LEFT {\space\emdash\nbsp}
> \def\RIGHT{\nbsp\discretionary{\emdash}{\emdash}{\emdash}\nbsp}
>
> \setuplayout[width=21mm]
> \setuplayout[width=24mm]
>
> \setuptolerance[verytolerant]
>
> \showframe
>
> test test \LEFT a test and some more test\RIGHT\ test test
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> > All Best
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> > 2015-03-01 17:58 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>:
> >> On 3/1/2015 5:41 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello list,
> >>>
> >>> This is probably a Polish idiosyncrasy, but we have to live with
> >>> it. According to punctuation rules when an em dash is at the end
> >>> of a line, it should be repeated at the beginning of the next one
> >>> (true, it is often disregarded due to lack of support for it in
> >>> typesetting programs). Is there any way to deal with it in
> >>> ConTeX?
> >>
> >>
> >> \starttext
> >>
> >> \setuplanguage[pl][lefthyphenchar=45,righthyphenchar=45]
> >>
> >> \pl \input tufte
> >>
> >> \stoptext
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