From: Alex Schroeder <kensanata@gmail.com>
Cc: "Björn Lindström" <bkhl@member.fsf.org>,
rcyeske@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rcirc manual
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9abbd5730601130610w4507670aqd122cb33bc564486@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uek3cs78r.fsf@gnu.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-09 17:47 rcirc manual Björn Lindström
2006-01-13 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 14:10 ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2006-01-13 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 15:11 ` Alex Schroeder
2006-01-14 16:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-13 15:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-13 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 22:16 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-01-14 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-14 12:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-01-14 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-14 17:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-01-15 23:07 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-15 7:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-15 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-15 22:23 ` Karl Berry
2006-01-16 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-15 22:29 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-01-16 14:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-21 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-23 0:09 ` Alex Schroeder
2006-01-27 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=9abbd5730601130610w4507670aqd122cb33bc564486@mail.gmail.com \
--to=kensanata@gmail.com \
--cc=bkhl@member.fsf.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=rcyeske@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.