On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 08:50:15AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > The latter would probably be an improvement for --- and -- too, as > > the two types of dash may appear indistinguishable in a fixed width font: > > > > a — b – c > > A -- becomes - with ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1, so it isn't more distinguishable > than the unicode ndash. To make it distinguishable, we should have --- > remains --- and -- remains --. >
The point was to distinguish em dash from en dash, not en dash from hyphen. A single ASCII hyphen seems to be appropriate to use for an en dash. > This looks good to me. The only issue I see is that the original report > that made us add ASCII_PUNCTUATION asked for everything relevant to be > ASCII, including what can be set with *QUOTE_SYMBOL. Now, to get the > same effect one would have to set > ASCII_GLYPH=1 OPEN_QUOTE_SYMBOL=` CLOSE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=' > OPEN_DOUBLE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=" CLOSE_DOUBLE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=" > > Should we add another customization option that does that (and also sets > ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1 for consistency)? Good point, that is a lot. It would be good to have an option that sets all of these.