[XeTeX] problems with \hskip0pt

[Roland Kuhn]

Hi Pablo!

On 26 Aug 2007, at 15:26, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> to allow hyphenation in compound words I use \hskip0pt{}--\hskip{},  
> but
> the problem here is that thanks to the first \hskip0pt{} it might be
> that a line begins with the en-dash.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this? Omitting the first \hskip0pt{} avoids  
> the
> problem but also prevents the first word to be hyphenated.
>
Have you tried putting a \nobreak or \penalty10000 in front?

Ciao,
                     Roland

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