Re: dashes, again

On 31 Jul 2005 at 14:45, Chris von Rosenvinge said:

> 
> My subscription to the list was interrupted, so I am trying this 
> query again. My apologies in advance if you are receiving this 
> message for the second time.
> 
> I'm a graphic designer, and the differences between an em-dash, 
> n-dash and hyphen matter to me. I customarily use – for 
> en-dashes and — for em-dashes. When I clean up my pages using 
> Mac Tidy, though, it converts these both to the same hyphen. Same 
> thing if I use –  — I use a configuration file, but 
> haven't been able to find what variable controls the way Tidy deals 
> with these entities. What is the solution?

Your previous attempt did get through, but no-one seems to have answered. 
I'm no expert, but ...

Have you set "ascii-chars yes"? If so, that's probably the answer. It 
tells Tidy to use the nearest 7-bit-ascii equivalent.

HTH ... FB

Received on Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:10:53 UTC