On 26/02/19 3:55 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:11:12 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> 
>> because <disc -> followed by -- is pretty obscure ... a replace could be 
>> seen as --- and when hyphenated as - -- and such ... it's about time 
>> that texies start using the proper unicode symbols instead of these 
>> funny ligatures
> 
> well the problem with the proper unicode symbols is that at first
> they are not so easy to input (that could be handled by the editor)
> and that they are not so visible. - - — look quite the same in my
> editor, even more if the screen is not so large and when my eyes
> tire. If -- wouldn't work I would resort to a command like \ndash
> instead only to get a better visual clue what's in the document. 
> 
> But regardless from the input method. How can one enable a line
> break after an em-dash when \automichyphenmode is 1?  The only way I
> found is to explicitly insert a penalty:

\setbreakpoints[compound] makes dash---dash breakable but not dash—dash

> 
> \starttext
> \hsize=2pt
> 
> dash---\penalty1 dash
> 
> dash—\penalty1 dash
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> 
> 

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