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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:53:57 -0500
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Kathy E. Gill wrote:

> >At 12:29 PM +1100 11/23/1999, eKIDna wrote:
> >>Typewriters are not the tools of choice for web page production; so why do
> >>so many of our fraternity stay with the limitation of the typewriter and
> >>use - - when any word processor provides the — (em dash) and – (en dash)
> >>which we mean?
>
> At 8:38 AM -0800 11/29/99, Avi Rappoport wrote:
> >When we all use Unicode, that will be OK.  In the meantime, your "em
> >dash" came out as a tilde ~ and your "en dash" as a carat ^ in my
> >mail (Mac G3 running Eudora).  So there's something to be said for
> >the least common denominator.
>
> they were both little 'boxes' on this Mac.

They came out fine on this Mac, using Netscape 3.04 with Courier as
the fixed-width font.  I can even tell (if I squint) that they are
of different widths.

Elizabeth

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