On 4/18/11 2:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Matt Lundin writes:
To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.
I just write the characters – choosing the right one for my purpose – in
Unicode. It's already the third millen
Matt Lundin writes:
> To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
> three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.
I just write the characters – choosing the right one for my purpose – in
Unicode. It's already the third millennium of our calendar — we can
expect U
Samuel Wales writes:
> 1 dash: - 2 -- 3 ---
> 1 dash: - 2 – 3 —
>
> When I write in ASCII, I notate emdash like "--". I think this is standard.
To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.
FWIW, Wikipedia suggests th
On Mon, Apr 18 2011, Samuel Wales wrote:
> On 2011-04-17, Ben Finney wrote:
>> I think not. I see many (non-Org) ASCII documents that distinguish a
>> notional em dash from en dash by different number of hyphens, as in your
>> first list.
>
> Like this---really? Or --- this? It does look, howev
On 2011-04-17, Ben Finney wrote:
> I think not. I see many (non-Org) ASCII documents that distinguish a
> notional em dash from en dash by different number of hyphens, as in your
> first list.
Like this---really? Or --- this? It does look, however, as if people
use different standards. I am no
Samuel Wales writes:
> 1 dash: - 2 -- 3 ---
> 1 dash: - 2 – 3 —
>
> When I write in ASCII, I notate emdash like "--". I think this is
> standard.
I think not. I see many (non-Org) ASCII documents that distinguish a
notional em dash from en dash by different number of hyphens, as in your
first l
Interesting.
However, unlike Org, Latex is not commonly exported to ASCII, commonly
copied without exporting to ASCII, commonly used as an organizing
system with ASCII pasted in, or multitargeted to ASCII (by copying and
export) and other formats, is it? Or is it? (Asking, not
rhetorical.)
For what its worth, "--" is an endash in LaTeX as well.
On Apr 17, 2011 11:04 PM, "Samuel Wales" wrote:
> 1 dash: - 2 -- 3 ---
> 1 dash: - 2 – 3 —
>
> When I write in ASCII, I notate emdash like "--". I think this is
standard.
> But in HTML export, that is an endash.
>
> I never use "---" in ASCII
