> From: Graham Samuel > > Ha! So the person who wrote the text just **thought** they > were minus signs. The trouble with the en dash (as opposed to > the em dash - I used to set type by hand, so I remember > these) is that the glyph in most fonts is very close to the > minus sign.
I generally use en dashes for minus signs in documents, because hyphens are too short in many proportional fonts, especially compared to plus signs. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
