> > But French would allow hyphenation of "commonplaces".
> Would it?
Funnily yes, and this had me initially confused. Try:
.hla fr
.hpf hyphen.fr
.hla en
.hpf hyphen.us
.sp
.ev epigram
.hla fr
.rj 1
L'homme c'est rien\[em]l'\[oe]uvre c'est tout.
.ev
.sp
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the
commonplaces of existence.
and the "problem" appears to go away:
L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre c'est tout.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the common-
places of existence.
but it actually doesn't as you can see by using the following
nonsense instead:
.hla fr
.hw commonp-laces
.hla en
.hpf hyphen.us
.sp
.ev epigram
.hla fr
.rj 1
L'homme c'est rien\[em]l'\[oe]uvre c'est tout.
.ev
.sp
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the
commonplaces of existence.
which results in:
L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre c'est tout.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonp-
laces of existence.
