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Re: DAVENPORT: I Can't Write--Without My Em-Dash
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- Subject: Re: DAVENPORT: I Can't Write--Without My Em-Dash
- From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:36:29 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <37AF2A28.6B3DDEB7@WhiteBarn.com>
- Reply-To: davenport@berkshire.net
Bob Van Valzah writes:
> I've found that — will give me a real em-dash with the print back
> end. However, there doesn't seem to be an — entity defined in the
> HTML stylesheet--I just get my same old — showing up in the HTML.
Here's the real problem (IMHO): popular browsers don't support
— even though it's legal HTML 4.0. I find this *incredibly*
annoying, but hard to work around for widely deployed documents. The
style sheets should probably output two hyphen characters by default.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
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