On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:46:12PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:18 -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:07:38PM -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > > > Setting in critic mode: > > > Did you use hyphen or em dashes in first and last paragraph? > > > Careful with the widow at the end of last paragraph? > > > Title "Chapter 2: Friends" is hard to read due to similar hue. Enlighten it > > > might help. > > > > > This is a *mockup*. I'm also extremely picky about em dashes, and we'll > > make sure we use those correctly in the finished book. :D > > Heh, are em dashes actually used in English? In Czech we use only > hyphens, - (like in screen-cast), and en dashes, – (when separating > sentences, denoting ranges, etc.)... Em dashes, —, seem over too long > (to me) ;-) Although, for some reason my evolution displays both the en > dash and em dash with same length (which is wrong)... In English typography, I've seen em dashes used far more often than not to separate clauses of interjection -- like this one! -- but whereas ASCII text generally represents an em dash as three hyphens (---), most people type it as two or (shudder) one. My mutt client displays your hyphen, en dash, and emdash above as three different lengths as intended. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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