Re: [css-counter-styles] emdash

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 19:26 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:35 PM, fantasai <
> fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> > (Also, if we do want to add a keyword, it should be mdash, not 
> > emdash, since that's what the HTML entity is.)
> 
> (But that's not the name of the character, it's just a weird 
> abbreviation the HTML entity used.)

The HTML entity names came from SGML.

These days the Unicode name EM DASH would be seem appropriate, 
although "&mdash;" also works.

I don't see a need for a keyword though.

Liam


> 
> ~TJ
>

Received on Friday, 20 March 2015 04:56:19 UTC