On 6/23/06, Chad Perrin <perrin(a)apotheon.com> wrote:
Rendering foo--boo as an endash would be
inappropriate, even if the
editor intended an endash, anyway. Endashes are not meant to be used as
hyphens, and should have a space on either side of them.
Ok, well, imagine foo=1900 and boo=1910.
Or maybe
I'm confusing Wikipedia and MediaWiki here - your solution is
perhaps not bad for MediaWiki, switchable by individual site admins.
But for Wikipedia it's a bad idea.
I'm not sure I see how something good for MediaWiki is bad for
Wikipedia, in this case. Could you elaborate on the difference as it
relates to this issue?
I'm thinking flexibility in the software is generally a good thing, as
different sites have different needs. Wikipedia, on the other hand,
has one fairly well established set of needs.
Of course, considering the miniscule differences
between hyphens and
endashes, I'm not sure endashes really need to be addressed for general
visual formatting purposes. I'm sure there are some strict endash fans
who will disagree vehemently with me, though.
Yeah I'd like to hear more about where en-dashes should be used. If
it's just for the date range thing, then probably a bot could look for
people mistakenly using emdashes or hyphens in those cases. A much
less frequent occurrence than people using -- for emdashes currently.
Steve