From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 11:02:59 CST
Doug Ewell wrote:
> I always thought the convention of using a double hyphen to indicate
> line-splitting hyphenation at a point where lexeme-joining hyphenation
> would have occurred anyway was a simply brilliant idea, one I wish
> were in more widespread use.
On a related note: in Polish typesetting practice, hard hyphens are
always promoted to the next line if soft hyphens occur in the text. So
if I have a sentence "Tam wisi czerwono-niebieska flaga" and the optimal
line break occurs where the hard hyphen already exists, the text will be
hyphenated like this:
Tam wisi czerwono-
-niebieska flaga.
AFAIK, this practice is not widespread in other languages, though may
exist in some.
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