On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:16:56PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Using -- for en and --- for em dashes seems reasonable
to me (that's how
TeX does it, IIRC), thought I'd be willing to live with – and --.
I'd like to vote strongly against that first mapping, for the
(hopefully) perfectly sound reason that "--" for mdash *is what people
already do* (see my hopeless case commentary about *bold* and
_italics_, weeks ago :-).
Cheers,
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