hello, for my part I use:
- triple hyphen --- for em dash (which I convert to — with txt2tags) - single hyphen - for everything else (I don't make difference between hyphen and en dash) and of course double hyphen for strikethrough with txt2tags ________________________________ De : Matt Garman <[email protected]> À : [email protected] Envoyé le : Jeudi 11 avril 2013 23h26 Objet : [t2t] hyphens, dashes and friends Many years ago, when I was in school, I used LaTeX for writing all my papers. From that, I developed the following habits for hyphen/dash usage: - A single hyphen for combined words: "blue-green" - A double hyphen for numerical ranges: "50--100" - A triple hyphen---in other words, a dash---as a grammatical construct, as in this bullet point Of course, LaTeX transformed those strings of hyphens into lines of increasing length for the printable output. But I personally adopted the convention even for plain text (such as emails), and now it's virtually impossible for me to not do that. And for what it's worth, I've noticed that the auto-correct features in Microsoft Outlook seems to follow somewhat similar rules... I haven't taken the time to figure out exactly what does what, but there is definitely a distinction between hyphens and dashes. I can't seem to find if there is any similar convention in txt2tags. In fact, the double hyphen gets interpreted as strikethrough. So I was just wondering how people handle this. Thanks! Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ txt2tags-list mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/txt2tags-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ txt2tags-list mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/txt2tags-list
