Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

On 20.10.2005, at 0:47, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2005, at 11:31 pm, Pavel Stra?ák wrote:
>
> > On 20.10.2005, at 0:11, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > In adition to different quotation marks, in dividing words like 
> > > > propan-butan the hyphen can (and should) be typed on the end of 
> > > > line 1 as well as on the begining of line 2.
> > >
> > > Would this be true whenever there is a hyphen in the original source 
> > > text, and you break the line there? If so, I imagine it's done by 
> > > making hyphen an active character that expands to 
> > > \discretionary{-}{-}{-} or something like that. This is no different 
> > > under XeTeX; the same mechanisms should still work.
> >
> > I am not sure I understand correctly. It should happen in the cases, 
> > where you use hyphen to connect the parts of a composite. In other 
> > words: anywhere one needs to type the hyphen even in the middle of 
> > the line (hyphen is called "conecteme" in our typographic terminology 
> > in these cases). It should not happen in the cases where hyphen is 
> > used to really hyphenate words (hyphen is called "divis" here).
>
> And how do you type these two different things, coneceme and divis, 
> when using CsLaTeX?
this-is-connecting-word-parts this\-is\-hyphenating

Manual hyphenation is obviously usually not needed.
> I think that whatever convention is used there could work equally well 
> under XeTeX, using the same or very similar macros; you just need to 
> separate these out from the font-encoding stuff that is no longer 
> needed.
>
> Sorry, I don't know enough about the Czech setup to give more 
> specifics of how you'd do this.

I think this is really quite simple. Only my explanation is cumbersome.

Pavel