On 19/07/13 18:38, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I don't know about "common". I had no idea there were 3 dash types
*Way* more than three. hyphen minus sign (not the same as a hyphen!) en-dash em-dash two-em-dash three-em-dash figure dash horizontal bar swung dash plus another half-dozen or so non-English hyphens, all of which have different typographic (and sometimes grammatical) purposes. Wikipedia has a good description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash but a brief summary is: – hyphen - is the smallest and is used for compound words like "out-tray"; – minus sign − is normally raised compared to the others; – en-dash – should be the width of "n" and is used for ranges, like Mon–Fri; – em-dash — should be the width of "m" and is used for a break stronger than a comma but weaker than a full stop; – horizontal bar ― should be longer than the em-dash and is used for quotations in some European languages; – swung dash ⁓ is normally found in dictionaries (paper, not Python) to stand in for the word being defined. But of course different fonts follow these rules to a greater or lesser degree. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
