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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 09:44:17 EDT
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- From: Allan Needell <NASSH100@SIVM>
- Subject: If it looks like a duck...
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- In-Reply-To: note of 08/11/92 21:21
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- From: Allan Needell
-
- Ken,
-
- Apolgies for misleading language. Of course en and em dashes are relics of the
- days when type was set with real lead. When you print with a laser (or other
- printer) all that matters is what winds up on the paper. If you get a line
- half way up the printed letters and it is about two spaces long (with no
- missing pieces), who's going to argue with you if you say its an em dash,
- really!
-
- The "looks like" reference just compares to two hyphens -- which have a little
- space between them, and don't really look like em dashes.
-
- Thanks also to Itamar. I have sent for general.zip and will try to bone up on
- separators.
-
- PS. Is the "looks like a duck...." reference familiar? Where does it come
- from? (i.e., If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, flies like a
- duck....its a duck!)
-
- Allan Needell
- National Air & Space Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- Washington, DC 20560 (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
-