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RE: Hyphenation problems with apostrophes using jad etex3.10
- From: Phillip Shelton <shelton at usq dot edu dot au>
- To: 'Yann Dirson' <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Cc: Jean-Pierre Messager <jpierre at fr dot alcove dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:11:40 +1000
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Hyphenation problems with apostrophes using jad etex3.10
- List-id: <docbook-apps.lists.oasis-open.org>
How does raw TeX handle this? You may have to do something with the TeX
package babel.
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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