On Friday, 11 August 2006 at 0:11:05 +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > >> BTW, in German, AFAIK, you should use `-', not \[en]. > > Are you sure about this? I just checked a few examples > (real books, so I assume these were created by professional > typesetters) both old (letterpress stuff, yay!) and new, and > they all use the en dash (or, in an old book, something longer, > like a 3/4-em dash) for number ranges (page ranges when citing > journal articles or year ranges like "Platon (429--348)").
Duden 1 (Rechtschreibung) agrees with you. Or at least, an older version does; they no longer include the section on typesetting in the newer editions. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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