Carl said: "Ascii-127 is a fine candidate for the discretionary hyphen character."
Well, maybe so, but note that is not really what I am doing, in the sense that I am not actually
using it for hyphenation, since I turn hyphenation off completely, by setting HY=0. I only made the
switch to avoid having the tilde "hidden" in normal display mode, and I haven't done any
testing to see if ASCII-127 actually works decently as the discretionary hyphen character for people
who actually DO use XyWrite hyphenation.
Wish I had recalled that the XyWrite norm was to suppress tildes, when I did my XYENC and XYDEC
programs, because I used the tilde as a VERY frequent "escape" character in that effort,
and using expanded mode isn't an option there. I think I could have used caret rather then tilde,
and it would have been a much better choice. I surprised that nobody pointed out to me at the time,
and I'm thinking of fixing that.
Do you actually use XyWrite hyphenation? Do you think that most people do?
Wally Bass
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Distefano" <cld@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xywrite" <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2024 3:10:20 PM
Subject: Re: hyphenation
Reply to note from "wbass" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("wbass") Sun, 8
Dec 2024 19:02:28 +0000 (UTC)
> I routinely set default HY=0 (HYphenation), and I also set default
> DH=(ASCII-127) (R1 R2 R7) (Default Hyphenation char).
> ...
> How do other people, in general, deal with this issue?
I deal with the issue by ignoring it: when necessary, I toggle into eXPanded view, where an
Ascii-126 is just another character. But I like your solution much better, and I'm going to adopt
it. As a relic of the punchcard era, Ascii-127 is a fine candidate for the discretionary hyphen
character. I mean, I'm something of a relic myself, and I've never, ever used it for anything --
until now. Thanks!
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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx