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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