[tex-hyphen] use of middle dot as a separator
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Dec 19 13:27:49 CET 2012
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:09:56PM +0100, Pander wrote:
> On 2012-12-19 13:05, Jaume Ortolà i Font wrote:
> > 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]
>
> Hi Jaume,
>
> Thank you for your contribution. This format is still in development. I
> will continue with it next year. Since the it has not an important role
> in the format as it is now I am sure another character can be used for
> that. I have added it to my to do list.
I think what you want is U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT.
Regards,
Khaled
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