From: rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Putting a – on both sides of a region
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:24:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f55e6dc8-b717-48c1-a702-560fbe8d94bf@f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3.1301497661.5543.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Mar 30, 8:06 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> * 2011-03-30 15:54 (+0200), Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>
> > Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
> >> I use a – –en dash– for sub sentences. What I would like is that when
> >> I insert this character and I have selected a region, that the en
> >> dash is inserted before the region and after it.
>
> > You should not. Typographically, it's the — em dash that's used for
> > this purpose.
>
> Depends on the language.
No consensus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 12:17 Putting a – on both sides of a region Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-30 12:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-30 13:22 ` Le Wang
2011-03-30 13:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 15:06 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1301497661.5543.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-30 15:24 ` rusi [this message]
2011-03-30 16:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-30 19:40 ` Putting a - " Drew Adams
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