So the controversial question is whether that list includes em-dashes (and
perhaps by extension triple dashes)?
And therefore a modest change would add just add double-dashes?
I'd suggest the modest one as general approach if unsure; always easier to
add things like this than remove them.
OTOH, I can't imagine why anyone would use an em-dash in a page range
except to indicate the delimiter.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Sebastian Karcher <
karc...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 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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