Re: Proposing a DOUBLE HYPHEN punctuation mark

From: Guy Steele (Guy.Steele@sun.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 13:47:52 CST

  • Next message: Adam Twardoch: "Re: Proposing a DOUBLE HYPHEN punctuation mark"

    I'll second that, ja.

    --Guy Steele

    On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote:
    >
    >> With the three rules I proposed in my posting, it's now possible
    >> to decide when to use a font and when to use a character
    >> difference. As the standard case is the standard hyphen and 99% of
    >> people don't need to worry about the alternatives, the confusion
    >> problem is absent for ordinary users.
    >
    > I always thought the convention of using a double hyphen to
    > indicate line-splitting hyphenation at a point where lexeme-joining
    > hyphenation would have occurred anyway was a simply brilliant idea,
    > one I wish were in more widespread use.
    >
    > --
    > Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
    > http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
    > http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
    > http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
    >
    >



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jan 24 2007 - 13:53:15 CST