On 9/20/07, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 15:00 19/09/2007 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:25:01 +0530 > >"Diabolic Preacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > what is a swung dash? > > > >I'm guessing... I think he means a tilde. > > Actually, he doesn't: he means a swung dash!
is it the backtick? the character on the same key as the tilde the character you precede expressions in shell scripts with? which key on the 101 En-US keyboard is the swung dash. sure sounds fancy. now i have to know what's a macron, but thanks for explaining this new name. > It's an easy but common mistake to confuse the two, but the tilde is > an accent or diacritic, of course, so it has to be raised - to where > it could appear over the letter it affects. The character you get if > you type the key alone is centred vertically and is too low to be the > required accent. It is also too large horizontally to fit over a > letter. Calling a swung dash a tilde is rather like calling a > negative sign a macron, or perhaps even an underscore: these are all > similar-looking but different in detail and position. A full stop - > OK, "period" to some - isn't the same as a raised point. detailed expressions are impressive but what helps dumb users like me are 1. which key on a En-US keyboard it is located on OR 2. the numerical ASCII or UTF-8/Unicode for the key. anyways it's goin offtopic. so i'll end it here. -- Diabolic Preacher As Is Blog: http://pintooo15.livejournal.com/ Bookmarks: http://simpy.com/user/dpreacher -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d+(-) s+:+ a22 C++@ UL@ P L+(++) E- W++ !N o? K>++ w(-) !O M-(--) !V PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP t- 5? X>+ R- tv@ b-(+) DI+ D+ G++ e++ h-- !r y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
