[Purdue-pm] Meeting Today (really dashes)

[Mark Senn]

Mark Senn wrote
>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

Rick Westerman wrote
>It did use a simple dash.  Assuming that what you mentioned is valid
>(and I see no reason why it should not be) I have now changed the web
>pages to use a double-dash (what your example calls an en dash) on the
>copyright statement (which is located at the bottom of each page.)

Hi Rick,    Just want to make sure you understood what I wrote (in a
convoluted way) above.  In your HTML document you should have, for example,
    Copyright 1999–2010
-mark