On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:56:45AM -0600, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml > Module name: webwml > Changes by: nori 07/08/21 06:56:45 > > Modified files: > finnish/CD/http-ftp: index.wml > > Log message: > Use — instead of "-" in the English page. Sync with English 1.40 > for other languages.
Hi nori, I agree that using typographic mdash instead of - is preferred. (The last argument against it was from Joey (probably in DWN) many years ago. He argued that not all browser/fonts support it. This is no longer a valid argument and we should report bugs against the fonts if we notice it.) But please note that e.g. German doesn't use mdash at all (except maybe to start a enumeration where it could be replaced with any charcater such as "*" or "o", ... as well). German uses ndash with surrounding spaces -- as demonstrated here -- in constrast to English---which uses according to The TeXBook---no spaces at all. It's not critical. A simple grep -r mdash will show us all occurances and it can be corrected globally. Just to let you know ... Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
