On 2011-04-17, Ben Finney <ben+em...@benfinney.id.au> 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 not suggesting that the default be changed. > “Consistent with ASCII”? ASCII has neither en dash nor em dash, so it's > not ASCII that you're wanting to be consistent with. You're referring to > conventions that attempt to preserve Unicode characters in ASCII. Quite right. Of course, some conventions -- this one included (or--arguably uglier but many favor it--this one) -- began before Unicode.
