https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156046
Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8) > We discussed the proposal in the design meeting. Not really you didn't. You all but ignored the discussion and information here on the bug page. > According the help [1] we change "A, space, minus, space, B" as well as "A, > space, minus, minus, space, B" to EN-dash. So, the help says what we do right now. That has no bearing on a bug report. > This autocorrection aligns with ...the demands from English grammar. On the contrary, and that's the whole point. It does not align with the demands of the English grammar. > EN dash is used for ranges, EM dash to substitute commas and to emphasis > content. Exactly. That's why "A, space, minus, space, B" needs to be substituted with an EM dash, since it's not a range. > It is convenient (and likely familiar for native English speaker) to > distinguish between EN and EM by adding spaces. 1. Exactly, and it's _EM_ dashes which often (not always) get surrounding spaces, EN dashes do not [1]. I even added links to explain this in the opening comment! 2. This bug is about when a user has _not_ indicated which dash they want, and it is up to _us_ to decide. And we're making the _wrong_ decision, because in almost all cases where the user write "A, space, minus, space, B" - they don't mean a range, they are writing a sentence with a pause. --- [1] : In UK English, EN dashes are sometimes used instead of EN dashes, and thus may have spaces around them. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
