From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: =?windows-1252?q?Re=3A_Putting_a_=96_on_both_sides_of_a_region?= Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87d3l8iz07.fsf@Compaq.site> <87k4fg7ly1.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301499731 20043 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 15:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:42:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 17:42:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4xX4-0004eA-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:42:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4xX3-0003hm-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:42:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301498665 15048 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2011 15:24:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186416 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80538 Archived-At: On Mar 30, 8:06=A0pm, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2011-03-30 15:54 (+0200), Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > > Cecil Westerhof writes: > >> I use a =96 =96en dash=96 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 =97 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