Re: Problem enforcing correct hyphenation using the &- symbol

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:10:36PM +0400, Stephan Pabst wrote:

> If "Daueremissionen" is replaced by "Dauer&-emissionen" (the correct
> hyphenation), the word won't be hyphenated at all - which looks
> somewhat ugly, because the inter-word spaces become quite large.
> lout even refuses to hyphenate this word if I suggest the original,
> incorrect hyphenation by typing "Dauere&-missionen".

First, I wonder why "&-" is defined to be unbreakable?  This looks
like a bug to me.  -ddof shows that hyphenation points are mapped to
&0ch.

I think that your problem is the next line.  It seems that Lout tries
not to leave it underfilled.  For example, try adding a word:

    Dauer &0ch emissionen) foo
         -^^^^-          -^^^^-

and Lout will break Daueremissionen at the suggested point though it
won't add a hyphen?!  FillObject adds a hyphen for ADD_HYPH internal
gap mode.  It seems that HYPH_MODE is not converted to ADD_HYPH
somewhere...

SY, Uwe
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