OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman
Paul D. DeRocco
pderocco at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jan 30 02:36:03 EST 2014
> From: Graham Samuel
>
> Ha! So the person who wrote the text just **thought** they
> were minus signs. The trouble with the en dash (as opposed to
> the em dash - I used to set type by hand, so I remember
> these) is that the glyph in most fonts is very close to the
> minus sign.
I generally use en dashes for minus signs in documents, because hyphens
are too short in many proportional fonts, especially compared to plus
signs.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com
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