OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

[Graham Samuel]

OK, you've convinced me that in my app I should allow any type of dash to stand in for a minus sign. It's not hard to do once you understand the need and in my case there is no requirement to use dashes for anything else.

Thanks for the insight.

Graham

On 30 Jan 2014, at 08:36, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> 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
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