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Re: Hyphenation problems with apostrophes using jadetex3.10


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Has this been fixed in jadetex 3.11 ?

I tested with 3.11 as well, and it does not work better in this respect.

> I tried as a workaround to insert some TeX stuff after the apostrophe,
> in the hope that it would help TeX to recognize the word as such, but
> the best subst I found that would work was s/'/'\\ /, which gives
> wrong spacing.  I could not find a zero-width space to put there (the
> "\," thin space did not help at all with the original problem).

I found out that a better workaround is to insert "\hspace{0pt}" after
the "'" character when used as an apostrophe, that is when it has one
letter on the left and either another letter or a TeX command (\) on
the right.  It gives (on a sh-compatible command-line):

perl -pi -e "s%([a-zA-Z])'([a-zA-Z\\\\])%\$1'\\\\hspace{0pt}\$2%g" $jadetexfile

But that's still a hack.  In some cases, the line gets broken after
the apostrophe character, which violates the typographical rules.  I'd
still appreciate a more accurate solution.

Regards,
-- 
Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
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