>>>> 20070613 14:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre >>>> Now, this isn't even specific to text terminals: it is difficult to distinguish the minus sign from the en or em dash in a graphical browser as well. <<<<<<<< I do not find that, for the dashes are usually thinner and longer. There are also the hyphen --shorter and fatter-- and the 3/4em dash--and that really is too much like the other dashes.
In any case, there are too many of them for in a pitchy typeface to tell them all apart. One of these, "-", stands for hyphen and minus, and Unicode calls this hybrid "hyphen-minus", twain stand for em-dash, and those who type for printing use three (!) for en-dash, although it is shorter. I do not support keeping the space. It has also spoilt the look of something that I wrote. As for context, hyphen, em-dash, and sometimes en-dash are supposed to _make_ the context. It is important to not confuse hyphen and em-dash. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
