Picture Book Mockup

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:46:12PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:18 -0600, Ian Weller wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:07:38PM -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
> > > Setting in critic mode:
> > > Did you use hyphen or em dashes in first and last paragraph?
> > > Careful with the widow at the end of last paragraph?
> > > Title "Chapter 2: Friends" is hard to read due to similar hue. Enlighten it
> > > might help.
> > > 
> > This is a *mockup*. I'm also extremely picky about em dashes, and we'll
> > make sure we use those correctly in the finished book. :D
> 
> Heh, are em dashes actually used in English? In Czech we use only
> hyphens, - (like in screen-cast), and en dashes, – (when separating
> sentences, denoting ranges, etc.)... Em dashes, —, seem over too long
> (to me) ;-) Although, for some reason my evolution displays both the en
> dash and em dash with same length (which is wrong)...

In English typography, I've seen em dashes used far more often than
not to separate clauses of interjection -- like this one! -- but
whereas ASCII text generally represents an em dash as three hyphens
(---), most people type it as two or (shudder) one.

My mutt client displays your hyphen, en dash, and emdash above as
three different lengths as intended.

-- 
Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/
  gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
  http://redhat.com/   -  -  -  -   http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
  irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/attachments/20090304/bf627852/attachment.sig>