Steve Bennett wrote:
Heh, I see in this case it's been requested at least 3 times before. Most of the discussion is on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485 and is quite interesting - issues about when to convert to em-dash vs en-dash. The discussion seems to boil down to: everyone agrees that -- to em-dash is intuitive, but how do you then implement a syntax for en-dash for the few people who want it?
Luckily we've already got one: –
Damn typography snobs... ;)
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