On 6/23/06, Chad Perrin <perrin(a)apotheon.com>
wrote:
> > Rendering foo--boo as an endash would
be inappropriate, even if the
> > editor intended an endash, anyway. Endashes are not meant to be used as
> > hyphens, and should have a space on either side of them.
Ok, well,
imagine foo=1900 and boo=1910.
Wow, that was an interesting typo. I meant that to say "bar".
You copied it from me:
Someone is likely to see "foo--boo" get
rendered as an en-dash
and think "damn, how do I get an em-dash?"
(I'm a bit of a trendsetter, I use foo/boo/moo rather than foo/bar/baz...)
Okay. I'll just agree, and let my confusion over the metasyntactic
variable progression in this thread wash over me.
I will not be confused
Confusion is the mind-killer
Confusion is the little death
Where the confusion has gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
(apologies to Frank Herbert)
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