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 16:11:53 +0100 Message-ID: <9abbd5730601130711g14a2cec2g6c51682b6096de97@mail.gmail.com> References: <87ek3hgunn.fsf@killalla.dreaming> <9abbd5730601130610w4507670aqd122cb33bc564486@mail.gmail.com> 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 1137176816 9800 80.91.229.2 (13 Jan 2006 18:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bkhl@member.fsf.org, rcyeske@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 19:26:53 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 1ExTdR-0007Yh-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:26:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExTcC-0005GI-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExQd2-0005Oh-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExQd0-0005Nl-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:14:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExQcz-0005Ng-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:14:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.206] (helo=uproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ExQfz-0002fh-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:17:15 -0500 Original-Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id u2so56180uge for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:11:54 -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=hMUTUQjMP0ZDe3jIeqUOu0LeMiniwhYXxnqD0AJGmYTfiLZu4KiqSNei/Fde5w/LnouaMRBpNbNSR9hn3H18x7HhrZ6tSgSrJD6+z1PX2zsf0nLAAF/Sbd5jY5oN3szmBr/b3KGcSBvzIrHyJI223o24/yAIj90R0Slvl9edzAA= Original-Received: by 10.48.43.4 with SMTP id q4mr70386nfq; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:11:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.207.5 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:11:53 -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:48999 Archived-At: > What would you use instead? en-dash? The Texinfo manual says that > en-dash is used in numerical ranges, which is not what we want here. Yeah, I would use SPC en dash SPC, or SPC -- SPC in texinfo. But using em dash is fine with me as well, if that is the recommendation for the GNU project. I was just curious because I had recently read the Bringhurst book which said that using em dash in this situation was "old school".