>> @ David: What I'm not quite sure about yet: Do you - in general -
>> think the font glyph should or should not be used?
>
> I think that the font should provide the minimally acceptable
> hyphen.
I second that.
> If it gets shorter than that, no hyphen should be used at all.
Yep.
> Whether longer hyphens are pieced together from this minimally
> acceptable hyphen (which could be just a centered dot, and thus not
> extensible) or from a larger extensible piece, I have no opinion
> about.
IMHO, long hyphens are extremely ugly. If the distance between two
syllables becomes too big I prefer
- - - -
or something like that instead of a long hyphen. At least this is the
traditional typesetting for classical music as used in Germany and
Austria.
Werner
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