[Purdue-pm] Meeting Today (really dashes)

[Mark Senn]

Rick,

On a web page you showed at the meeting earlier today I think
it said something like
    Copyright 1999-2010 Purdue University
It may have used a hypen instead of an en dash.

There are four basic types of dashes, all of them should consist of
one continuous horizontal line with no spaces before or after it.

NAME         LENGTH            REPRESENTED BY   EXAMPLE
                               IN THE EXAMPLES
hyphen       short             -                dashes sometimes cause con-
                                                fusion
en dash      intermediate      --               Copyright 1999--2010
                                                (a date range)
                                                the post--World War II years
figure dash  width of digit    ---              1---800---FLOWERS
em dash      long              ----             It was a revival of the most
                                                potent image in modern
                                                democracy----the revolutionary
                                                idea

TO GET A       TYPE IN HTML    TYPE IN TEX OR LATEX
-              -               -
figure dash    (don't know)    (it's complicated)
en dash        –         --
em dash        —         ---

If you are using a font that doesn't have a figure dash, use a hyphen.

REFERENCES
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, 6.80&ndash96.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_dash#Figure_dash

-mark