This is about which symbols the page-range-delimiter replaces and when. It
already defaults to en-dash, that part isn't controversial.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bdar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And in the TeX world, triple-dashes get replaced by em-dashes.
>
> I haven't followed this discussion, but looking back on it, I'm a little
> confused by what you seem to be proposing.
>
> Generally accepted "typographically correct" page range delimiter is an
> en-dash. If you want a rule, I'd say replace a dash or double-dash with an
> en-dash?
>
> Sorry if I'm missing something; been a long day.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Sebastian Karcher <
> karc...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
>> I don't know about em-dashes. Repeated hyphens are common in bibtex, so
>> they may make it into metadata.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Rintze Zelle <rintze.ze...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sebastian, Sylvester, does either of you (or anybody else) ever
>>> encounter item metadata that uses anything other than hyphens or
>>> en-dashes in page ranges? Do we really have to substitute repeated
>>> hyphens and em-dashes as well?
>>>
>>> Rintze
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Sylvester Keil <sylves...@keil.or.at>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Sounds good to me; I guess it would be sufficient to add one more
>>> > sentence after the one I quoted. To make it easier for implementors we
>>> > could also enumerate exactly which characters should be replaced (my
>>> > take would be: -, en-dash, em-dash, making sure to catch things like
>>> > '--', too).
>>>
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