Re: displaying dashes

[Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Frank A. Christoph <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Brandon Ibach wrote:
> >    Well, short of someone patching the OpenJade backend to fix this on
> > input...
> >
   Yep, I just *had* to take a shot at it.  The following patch should
be applied in the "jade" directory of the source distribution.  It was
generated against 1.2.2, but I expect it should apply relatively
cleanly to newer versions, as well.
   This has the TeX backend break up sequences of two or more dashes
with "{}" between them.  It also adds some code to turn the Unicode
endash and emdash (hex 2013 and 2014, respectively) characters into
the TeX sequences of "--{}" and "---{}", respectively.
   If anyone finds any problems with the way this works, let me know.

-Brandon :)

*** TeXFOTBuilder.cxx-dist	Tue Jul 13 04:44:14 1999
--- TeXFOTBuilder.cxx	Mon Nov 22 00:07:33 1999
***************
*** 29,32 ****
--- 29,35 ----
  #endif
  
+ #define ENDASH (Char)0x2013
+ #define EMDASH (Char)0x2014
+ 
  // --------- TeXTmpOutputByteStream ------------------------------------------
  
***************
*** 1832,1835 ****
--- 1835,1843 ----
  				// will need special treatment.
      if (*s > 255) {
+       if (*s == ENDASH)
+          os() << "--{}";
+       else if (*s == EMDASH)
+          os() << "---{}";
+       else
        //      set("Ch",(unsigned long)(*s));
        // insertAtomic("Character");
***************
*** 1843,1846 ****
--- 1851,1866 ----
        default:
  	os() << char(*s);
+ #ifdef OUTLINES
+ 	if (needToCollect()){
+ 	  addHeadedText(s,1);
+ 	  //top(parStack_).headingText_.append(s,1);
+ 	}
+ #endif
+ 	break;
+       case '-':
+         if (n > 1 && *(s + 1) == '-')
+           os() << "-{}";
+         else
+           os() << char(*s);
  #ifdef OUTLINES
  	if (needToCollect()){