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Re: [O] emdash and endash


From: Matt Lundin
Subject: Re: [O] emdash and endash
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:56:39 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> 1 dash: - 2 -- 3 ---
> 1 dash: - 2 – 3 —
>
> When I write in ASCII, I notate emdash like "--".  I think this is standard.

To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.

FWIW, Wikipedia suggests this is acceptable:

,----[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash ]
| When an actual em dash is unavailable—as in the ASCII character set—a
| double ("--") or triple hyphen-minus ("---") is used.
`----

Of course, a line in Wikipedia does not a standard make. :)

Best,
Matt



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