Philip Withnall wrote: > I’ve created https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage which I > think covers everything discussed in this thread so far. Please feel > free to add further suggestions to it, or move things from the > ‘discussion’ to the ‘agreed’ list.
Looks good. The only thing I’d like to discuss is the use of a spaced em-dash: > Em-dash (U+2014, ‘—’) rather than a hyphen (‘-’) in longer descriptive > strings. The em-dash should be used similarly to a colon — to mark an > abrupt change or conclusion to a sentence. For example: “hyphens should > not be used — they are too narrow” rather than “hyphens should not be > used - they are too narrow”. I agree that hyphens should not be used for the above purposes. The common alternatives are the following: a) Em-dash without spaces: Hyphens should not be used—they are too narrow b) En-dash with spaces: Hyphens should not be used – they are too narrow c) Em-dash with spaces: Hyphens should not be used — they are too narrow (Please remember to look at these examples in a proportional font, not a fixed-width one.) Also see the following section about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash IMO either style a) or b) from above should be chosen, as they are more widely used than c) in general. I personally prefer b), because a) “glues” the words together and c) spaces them too far apart. Any other opinions on this? Regards, Robin _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
