On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:16:56PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Using -- for en and --- for em dashes seems reasonable to me (that's how TeX does it, IIRC), thought I'd be willing to live with – and --.
I'd like to vote strongly against that first mapping, for the (hopefully) perfectly sound reason that "--" for mdash *is what people already do* (see my hopeless case commentary about *bold* and _italics_, weeks ago :-).
Cheers, -- jra