top | item 45072118 (no title) e28eta | 6 months ago To be pedantic: Opt-shift-hyphen for the em dash (longer one). Opt-hyphen only gets you an en dash. discuss order hn newest 9dev|6 months ago …which is the appropriate character for ranges, i.e., page 1–2.I find it a bit sad that using proper typography is now frowned upon, but it seems that ship has sailed. Symbiote|6 months ago From the discussion with our head of communications (whose pedantry I approve of) US usage avoids spaces—like this—and should use an em-dash.But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable. load replies (1) saagarjha|6 months ago One of the reasons I'm not on that page–I have a policy of using en dashes because I am lazy machinate|6 months ago Right, you sniped my edit. I don't know why I gave up my hn delay setting...
9dev|6 months ago …which is the appropriate character for ranges, i.e., page 1–2.I find it a bit sad that using proper typography is now frowned upon, but it seems that ship has sailed. Symbiote|6 months ago From the discussion with our head of communications (whose pedantry I approve of) US usage avoids spaces—like this—and should use an em-dash.But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable. load replies (1)
Symbiote|6 months ago From the discussion with our head of communications (whose pedantry I approve of) US usage avoids spaces—like this—and should use an em-dash.But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable. load replies (1)
saagarjha|6 months ago One of the reasons I'm not on that page–I have a policy of using en dashes because I am lazy
9dev|6 months ago
I find it a bit sad that using proper typography is now frowned upon, but it seems that ship has sailed.
Symbiote|6 months ago
But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable.
saagarjha|6 months ago
machinate|6 months ago