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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --)
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --) |
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Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:12:48 -0800 |
About the em-dash,
What is easier to read of these two:
Now is the time -- so they say -- for all good men to come...
Now is the time--so they say--for all good men to come...
When the output font is TYPEWRITER, FIXED WIDTH, etc, it
looks (to me) a lot nicer with a space on each side of
the two-hyphens.
To my eyes, the "--" binds a lot closer to the character
to the left, sort of like a single hyphen does.
It should at least be an option for the html engine, so
each of us can get what WE find the EASIEST to read.
Myself, I prefer the extra space as a visual cue that the
"--" is a BIG ("low precedence") separator, separating BIG
blocks of text, NOT, as does a hyphen, two adjacent characters
or two parts of a compound-word.
Here's another example text I just grabbed and hacked:
The Edge Gallery is working on a documentary project about the use
and effects of depleted uranium (DU) weapons. These new generation of
anti-tank shells are made from the waste product of the nuclear
industry, yet Britain and America have defined DU as a conventional
firearm. The use of DU in weapons -- that can be spread around the test
ranges and battlefields of the world -- is an ingenious solution to the
nuclear industry's paralysing problem of what to do with nuclear
waste. By any criteria they fit the definition of a chemical and
radiological weapon. In Britain and America when DU is produced as a
by-product of uranium enrichment it is classified as nuclear waste,
yet as a weapon it becomes 'conventional'.
versus:
The Edge Gallery is working on a documentary project about the use
and effects of depleted uranium (DU) weapons. These new generation of
anti-tank shells are made from the waste product of the nuclear
industry, yet Britain and America have defined DU as a conventional
firearm. The use of DU in weapons--that can be spread around the test
ranges and battlefields of the world--is an ingenious solution to the
nuclear industry's paralysing problem of what to do with nuclear
waste. By any criteria they fit the definition of a chemical and
radiological weapon. In Britain and America when DU is produced as a
by-product of uranium enrichment it is classified as nuclear waste,
yet as a weapon it becomes 'conventional'.
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text--and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example--that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text--and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example--that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text--and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example--that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text--and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example--that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text--and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example--that's at least ten lines long. Again:
versus
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text -- and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example -- that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text -- and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example -- that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text -- and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example -- that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text -- and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example -- that's at least ten lines long. Again:
My preference is more apparent when the em-dash is buried in the
middle of a lot of densly-packed text -- and here I'm on-the-fly
trying to make-up an example -- that's at least ten lines long. Again:
- lynx-dev chrtrans .tbl format (was: ... (em dash = --), (continued)
- lynx-dev chrtrans .tbl format (was: ... (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/18
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/18
- lynx-dev New Version Notification service, Mark E. Crane, 1999/03/18
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Klaus Weide, 1999/03/18
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/19
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Klaus Weide, 1999/03/19
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/19
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Klaus Weide, 1999/03/20
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/21
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Philip Webb, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --),
David Combs <=
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Philip Webb, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Klaus Weide, 1999/03/16
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), David Combs, 1999/03/16
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), David Combs, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Philip Webb, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #8 (minore chrtrans undo), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #7 (Options menu!), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #9 (more comments), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/16