From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emdash and endash
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:48:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAC3328.7050202@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v0zg3ak.fsf@benfinney.id.au>
On 4/18/11 2:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Matt Lundin<mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
>> three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.
>
> I just write the characters – choosing the right one for my purpose – in
> Unicode. It's already the third millennium of our calendar — we can
> expect Unicode support, and harangue those who haven't joined us in the
> international village yet.
>
Indeed so. But when using a fixed-width font, "--" and "---" are a lot
easier to distinguish from "-" than are "–" and "—".
cm
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-18 3:04 emdash and endash Samuel Wales
2011-04-18 3:12 ` Chris Malone
2011-04-18 4:34 ` Samuel Wales
2011-04-18 4:55 ` Ben Finney
2011-04-18 5:39 ` Samuel Wales
2011-04-18 6:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-04-18 11:56 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-18 12:19 ` Ben Finney
2011-04-18 12:48 ` Christian Moe [this message]
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