hyphenation and punctuation with ".–" at the end of the line

Question

I have to edit a text (actually a diary) where the line quite often ends with: .– (point and dash) eg.

"Last night I took the subway.–"

LaTeX does not break the word "subway" if it's at the end of the line.

From this how to get latex to hyphenate a word that contains a dash? i understand that the package hyphenat might be of some help, but I don't understand the manual.

Is there a way to tell LaTeX to regard ".–" just as it would do with ", !, ?, ., ;" etc.?

Answer 1

You could use a command called (say) \dotdash defined by

\def\dotdash{\nobreak\hspace{0pt}.--}