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Re: `limitations' of OzTeX (was: fontinst with 8y.etx)
- To: "Melissa O'Neill" <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
- Subject: Re: `limitations' of OzTeX (was: fontinst with 8y.etx)
- From: Barbara Beeton <bnb@ams.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:57:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: Berthold Horn <bkph@ai.mit.edu>, Fontinst <fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>, TeX Fonts <tex-fonts@math.utah.edu>
- In-reply-to: <199806171944.MAA09629@daisy.cs.sfu.ca>
melissa comments about the "cwm"
* In fact, I've never seen a `compwordmark'/`cwm' glyph in any
font, so I have no idea what it might look like, or whether it
really needs to be in 8y.
the compound word mark is invisible; what it is intended for is a way
to indicate a preferred hyphenation location to tex especially in
agglutinative languages, and is an artifact of tex's hyphenation
mechanism. it's similar in concept to, but a stronger form of, the
"soft hyphen'.
-- barbara beeton