From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rcirc manual Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:10:13 +0100 Message-ID: <9abbd5730601130610w4507670aqd122cb33bc564486@mail.gmail.com> References: <87ek3hgunn.fsf@killalla.dreaming> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137173690 29517 80.91.229.2 (13 Jan 2006 17:34:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= , rcyeske@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 18:34:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExSnz-0002Xp-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:33:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExSkn-0007vw-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExPfQ-0007HO-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExPfK-0007F6-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExPfJ-0007El-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.192] (helo=uproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ExPiI-0005Gw-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:15:35 -0500 Original-Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id u2so31372uge for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:10:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MCr+p/fPamhGcTgto0vnwhmVXa1VX4PIC4N90NherrP5RAd0r5OEFWC/Fxh8+pkIMhtOJuXmLwHd+VearuLOTB7k4FxxLpzBpV5INI6/ssfFvvGEb5LSds5jkgY7oEaQAU9UUau60Y4J4dstRp5tt98hzgHFZtmUiHI8F3cb33Q= Original-Received: by 10.48.164.9 with SMTP id m9mr64985nfe; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:10:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.207.5 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:10:13 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48995 Archived-At: Thanks for the feedback on the manual, Eli. As for the em dash suggestion: Is there a convention or tradition for the GNU manuals to prefer em dashes? I'm reading The Elements of Typographical Style by Robert Bringhurst, at the moment. On p 80 he says: "The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. [...] Used as a phrase marker -- thus -- the en dash is set with a normal word space either side." I think in European typography in general, em dashes are rarely used.