Re: Hyphens, Ens or Ems?

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From: Susan Walters
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:41

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Thanks to all for the input. I've changed hyphens to en-dashes, pretty much according to Don's and Thomas' suggestions, and it does look better. In my version of the font, the en-dash is actually a wee bit shorter than the plus sign, and so it looks perfectly natural in use as a minus sign. As was mentioned earlier, the hyphen is slanted and much narrower, and does look a bit odd as a minus sign. 

For separations, I've been adding tiny space around em-dashes. I actually like both looks as mentioned by Charles, but I've had a hard time breaking our technical writers of space-double hyphen-space. Now that they've gotten used to using the em-dash, I don't want to confuse them!

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