From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emdash and endash
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:56:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wris9he9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BANLkTin-8XDj9mLmo9PiCsSVhH5QpvWCyg@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 18 2011, Samuel Wales wrote:
> On 2011-04-17, Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> I think not. I see many (non-Org) ASCII documents that distinguish a
>> notional em dash from en dash by different number of hyphens, as in your
>> first list.
>
> Like this---really? Or --- this? It does look, however, as if people
> use different standards. I am not suggesting that the default be
> changed.
>
>> “Consistent with ASCII”? ASCII has neither en dash nor em dash, so it's
>> not ASCII that you're wanting to be consistent with. You're referring to
>> conventions that attempt to preserve Unicode characters in ASCII.
>
> Quite right. Of course, some conventions -- this one included
> (or--arguably uglier but many favor it--this one) -- began before
> Unicode.
A very minor two cents…
I think this springs much earlier typographical conventions: the
grammatical dash is sometimes represented by an en-dash with spaces on
either side, and sometimes by an em-dash with no spaces. Perhaps a US/UK
thing? But I don't think that anyone uses an em-dash with spaces on
either side, and I think the convention of two ASCII dashes standing for
an en-dash (and three for em-) probably still makes the most sense…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 6:57 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 [this message]
2011-04-18 11:56 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-18 12:19 ` Ben Finney
2011-04-18 12:48 ` Christian Moe
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