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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "&#151": em-dash?


From: Leonid Pauzner
Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "&#151": em-dash?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:35:26 +0400 (MSD)

> Philip Webb wrote:
> > 980903 David Combs wrote:
> > > This code:  who—he's my boss—who runs
> > > comes out as  who-he's my boss-who runs .
> > > maybe we should show it as "--" or, even better, as " -- ".
> >
> > yes, i've noticed this regularly in one newspaper (Washington Post?).
> > you're right, it should be ` -- ': that's correct secretarial style.
> >
> > and while we're on it, Lynx should write  2  spaces after a full stop:
> > that's also professional secretarial practice.
>
> I don't think that lynx should be in the business of correcting
> punctuational errors/preferences when it comes to text presented on the
> web -- I'd much prefer to leave that to the whim of the author.

Spaces around dash - up to the author. We may change em-dash to '--'
but there is a problem: it is built-in iso-8859-1 code so need a lot of
changes...
>
> At the least, it should be a compile-time definition, IMO.
>



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