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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: hyphenation with hyphens
Message-ID: <HANCHE.90Nov15155520@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Date: 15 Nov 90 14:55:20 GMT
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In-Reply-To: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU's message of 15 Nov 90 08:05:27 GMT

In article <1990Nov15.080527.9557@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:

   From article <3684@rwthinf.UUCP>, by norbert@rwthinf.UUCP (Norbert Kiesel):
   [asking about TeX's unwillingness to further hyphenate subsystem-modul]

   It's a feature. In typographical circles it is considered bad practice to 
   hyphenate words that are already hyphenated. You know what I mean!

That may be true and perhaps not too hard to practice in English, but
in languages like German and the Scandinavian languages you sometimes
end up with real monstrosities where that rule must be broken.  And
you can easily make TeX break that rule, by saying things like

   subsystem\kern0pt-\hskip 0pt modul

Of course, if you need to do that often you should create a macro that
will expand to the horror in the middle of the word... 

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY