Dashes (Was: Wish List for New Spec) from Mike Meyer on 1995-12-28 (www-html@w3.org from December 1995)

From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:00:49 PST
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <19951227.75DD920.14D2A@contessa.phone.net>

> ++ Me, I still can't believe there's no support for a real dash ("em dash") in
> ++ HTML.  How can this be?
> ++
> Quoting the 28/3/95 HTML 3.0 draft, section Special Characters,
> subsection Hyphen:
>    The character entities &endash; and &emdash; denote dash marks with
>    the same widths as the &ensp; and &emsp; entities respectively.

And from the same document, the DTD lists:

<!ENTITY mdash  SDATA "[mdash ]" -- em dash -->
<!ENTITY ndash  SDATA "[ndash ]" -- en dash (1/2-em) -->

So which spelling is correct?

	<mike

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