Re: document -- and @code @findex and `` and ---

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:35:19 -0400
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> 
> This is one of the items in the Overview:
> 
>   Use three hyphens in a row, @samp{---}, to produce a long dash---like
>   this (called an @dfn{em dash}), used for punctuation in sentences.
>   Use two hyphens, @samp{--}, to produce a medium dash--like this
>   (called an @dfn{en dash}), used to separate numeric ranges.  Use a
>   single hyphen, @samp{-}, to produce a standard hyphen used in compound
>   words.  For display on the screen, Info reduces three hyphens to two
>   and two hyphens to one (not transitively!).

As long as we are talking about this: it was my gripe from long ago
that there's no index entry leading to this.  Something like

  @cindex hyphens, two and three in a row
  @cindex multiple dashes

would be a great help, I think.