[Purdue-pm] Meeting Today (really dashes)
Mark Senn
mark at ecn.purdue.edu
Wed May 19 06:23:29 PDT 2010
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
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