From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emdash and endash
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:39:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin-8XDj9mLmo9PiCsSVhH5QpvWCyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762qcf9ay.fsf@benfinney.id.au>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 5:39 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 [this message]
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
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