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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Hyphenation problems with apostrophes using jad etex3.10
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/ > Free-Software Engineer > Ingénieur Logiciel-Libre > Free-Software time manager Responsable du > temps Informatique-Libre > Debian GNU/Linux developper <dirson@debian.org> >
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