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20 Jan
2010
20 Jan
'10
12:52 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 20 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
What I also find disturbing is that *some* of these conventions are retained, but not all.
Since most people use fixed width fonts in their editors, it is difficult to distinguish between – (en-dash), — (em-dash) and - (hyphen-minus). So "--" and "---" are quite useful. Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/