Ralph Corderoy wrote in <20220913084152.0211621...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>: |Hi Steffen, | |> Hyphen is good at the end of line when a word is hyphenated, otherwise |> it is misplaced. | |Not in English. A hyphen may be used to join compound adjectives, as a |two-minute Google would show. :-) An ‘American-football player’ isn't |necessarily American whereas an ‘American football player’ is, but he |may be playing what the Yanks call soccer. It's also used when adding a |prefix to a word, as in ‘re-sort’ to re-run sort(1) as ‘resort’ is where |one holidays. | |> En dash would look nice, i could imagine. | |Those ASCII ‘-’ above should be rendered as a hyphen in nicely typeset |output. An en-dash is far too big. Oh, there's another one!
Ah, kerning and all that, a science! But i was talking -Tutf8, and these are fixed width font and there are three character cells, and the left "has two", the middle "is empty", and the right is ok to go. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)