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Re: texinfo, dashes
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: texinfo, dashes |
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:10:30 +0200 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> But texinfo documents that using '---' without surrounding spaces is the
> correct way to typeset an mdash, which is exactly the punctuation you want
> here.
Here's what I get:
Input: '---' ' --- '
Output in .info: '--' ' -- '
Output in .html: '—' ' — '
Output in .dvi/.pdf: 'emdash' ' emdash '
> It may look ugly in texinfo sources, but it looks wrong the way you
> did it by readding spaces when you go to dvi or pdf.
It looks absolutely right with the spaces in my eyes.
American typography probably does it differently than European typography.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash.
Bruno
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