Re: texinfo, dashes

2006-10-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > Indeed, spaces around dashes is an American/European difference. > ... > However, nothing else in Texinfo documents in general, or the Gnulib > document in particular, is typeset in European style, as far as I can > see, so the spaces seem out of place to me. But when I sit dow

Re: texinfo, dashes

2006-10-24 Thread Karl Berry
These were a little more than Texinfo niglets: Your definition and my definition obviously vary. Sorry. American typography probably does it differently than European typography. Indeed, spaces around dashes is an American/European difference. (Sometimes I use thinspaces, but that's not

Re: texinfo, dashes

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > But texinfo documents that using '---' without surrounding spaces is the > correct way to typeset an mdash, which is exactly the punctuation you want > here. Here's what I get: Input: '---' ' --- ' Output in .info:'--'