[tex-hyphen] use of middle dot as a separator
Jaume Ortolà i Font
jaumeortola at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 13:05:04 CET 2012
Hi,
I have seen in this document[1] that the middle dot character (U+00B7)
is proposed as a separator for indicating hyphenation points (with the
lowest priority). This should be strongly discouraged as this
character is commonly used inside words in Catalan and other
languages.[2]
Regards,
Jaume Ortolà
[1] Hyphenation Definition File Format (under development), section 3.
Hyphenation priority
http://xml.resource.org/cgi-bin/xml2rfc-dev.cgi?mode=html&url=https://raw.github.com/PanderMusubi/hyphenation-definitions/master/hyphenation-definitions.xml#priority
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct#Catalan
More information about the tex-hyphen
mailing list