Re: [Groff] hyphenation in words with explicit hyphen

[Kees Zeelenberg]

> 
> Hmm, german.sty has the command "= which inserts an explicit hyphen,
> allowing hyphenation before and after the hyphen.  I can't imagine
> that Dutch language support files for LaTeX don't have this (or a
> similar) feature.
The babel files for Dutch don't seem to have it. I can't find it
in dutch.ldf, nor any other mechanism; and neither does it work in a test file.
Btw, the description in Kopka and Daly seems to suggest that "= 
only prints as - if the word is actually hyphenated at that point;
but your description as well as the tests I have carried out show that it 
always prints as -.
Anyway, I'm going to add the "= feature to my personal LaTeX document class. 
Thanks!
Still I think that a - in a word should not inhibit further hyphenation, at 
least not, 
as you suggest, in longer words.

Kees Zeelenberg