In Polish, it’s a common practice to include a hyphen at the start of the line when breaking a word with a hyphen in it. In that case, the word biało-czarny could be hyphenated to: biało- -czarny In LaTeX, this could be achieved using \discretionary{-}{-}{-}. Is there anything similar to this in…

Starting with Typst v0.12, which is currently available for testing, this will happen automatically when setting the language to Polish using #set text(lang: "pl"). The same is true for the languages Lower Sorbian, Czech, Croatian, Portuguese, Slovak, and (in some cases) Spanish.

Alternative to LaTeX \discretionary?

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afiaith October 4, 2024, 11:57pm 5

For context and for anyone who wants to try out version 0.12.0-rc1: