On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:40:26PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
wrote:
It's a topic I'm close to, because my
instinct is to want to render
standard typesetting as closely as possible in ASCII, but I just can't
bring myself to set ASCII em dashes--you know, these things--without
the surrounding spaces -- even though that's how I see them set in
type.
Weird, I tend to use hyphens with spaces - like this - to achieve that effect.
I see that, too. A good corpus to check would probably be a couple of
Usenet groups, selected for their length of posting.
Cheers,
-- jra
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?