From: John Ralls [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2016 2:55 PM To: Chris Good <[email protected]> Cc: GnuCash Developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: documenting subtraction
On Nov 25, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Chris Good <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi John, The punctuation guide [1] you kindly pointed me too recently does not mention using hyphens in mathematical formulas AFAICS. In the guide selling section is uses: GROSS_SALE-TOTALBUY-COMMISSION and I would like to change that to GROSS_SALE - TOTALBUY – COMMISSION (spaces around hyphen) OK? [1] http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/about-this-guide.html Chris, Yeah, punctuation generally means "natural language" rather than "math" (or "maths" if you prefer). I do think it's normal in typesetting formulae to have spaces around operators and I agree that it makes the formula more readable in this case. BUT don't use the text you used here: There's an en-dash (U+2013) between TOTALBUY and COMMISSION. As I've told you before, the typographically correct symbol to use is − (U+2212, −)) but the ASCII hyphen-minus - (U+002d) that you used between GROSS_SALE and TOTALBUY is commonly used and is fine. Whichever you use should be the same at least on the whole page. Regards, John Ralls John, Darn, I fell afoul of Outlook autocorrect and autoformat options again. I’m sure I had already fixed those… Why it changed one but not the other I’ve got no idea. I’ve done a little searching on the internet - very interesting. I’ll change these uses to −. Thanks, Chris Good
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