On 6/23/06, Chad Perrin perrin@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...)
Steve