RE: [Groff] Re: Hyphens and Dashes

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

At 05:25 p.m. 01/04/2004, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 01-Apr-04 Jeff Conrad wrote:
>
> > I agree with Alejandro's recommendation of the Chicago Manual of
> > Style as an authoritative guide to U.S. practice.
> > [...]
> > I'd use the Chicago Manual with caution outside of the U.S.,

[snip]

> For the UK you can hardly go wrong with "Hart's Rules for Compositors
> and Readers at the University Press, Oxford".

[snip]

In what pertains to Spanish, the information is scattered here and there, 
but the authoritative source (and some of the recommendations are better 
than a Monty Python sketch ;-) is the "Ortografía de la Real Academia de la 
Lengua", available on-line from the R.A.E.'s web site (http://www.rae.es/) 
in PDF format.

A person who has done an admirable effort to rescue traditional Spanish (as 
in Castilian and Catalonian) typography with computers is Javier Bezos, his 
paper on Spanish typesetting included with LaTeX's multilingual typesetting 
package Babel is recommended reading, as well as perusing the papers 
available at his web site http://perso.wanadoo.es/jbezos/, particularly 
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jbezos/typo.html. Everything in Spanish, of course.



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Alejandro López-Valencia
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