that was my guess too, christopher aka creative sheep........ ;-)
Rob
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On 8-1-2013 8:30, Adam Sale wrote:
Christopher?
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com
<mailto:adamfs...@gmail.com>> wrote:
wow...
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Alan Fregtman
<alan.fregt...@gmail.com <mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com>> wrote:
That would be the "em dash" or "mutton" (though I've never
seen or heard it called the latter.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_dash#Em_dash
And an "em"? It's a typographical unit of measurement and the
"—" dashis in fact 1em unit in width for any given font size
(which by the way is measured in units called "points".) A "—"
dash at font size 14 is 14 "points" (pt) wide, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29
But what are "points" you ask? Twelfths of a "pica" which
itself is 1/72th of 1 foot, or 1/6th of an inch, or my
prefered answer, "very small".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_%28typography%29
So now you know how dashes and font sizes relates to some
british king's feet size. Who knew, right?!
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Fx Person
<fxper...@rocketmail.com <mailto:fxper...@rocketmail.com>> wrote:
By the name of it, I was expecting like a squished little
circle lol!
Of course I've seen that a bunch of times, but thought it
was more to express like "etcetera"
I'll also look-up what's the long dash also briefly
referenced in the article (about the three little dots)
And guess I was missing a dot :)
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*From:* Stephen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com
<mailto:stephenrbl...@gmail.com>>
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Hi
In English writing, especially in e-mail messages, an
ellipsis is used to indicate a pause or a falter, or a
trailing off ...
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ellipsis.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
On 07/01/2013 12:10 PM, Fx Person wrote:
Hi Brent,
As for the punctuation, perhaps.The double dots .. are
meant to act like “long pauses” to which I’m not aware of
a standard way of expressing that.
I have seen the extended(long) dash used as such, though
not exactly, & I actually didn’t find it in the Character
Map.
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