Re: The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

On 4/27/2016 6:53 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Asmus Freytag (c) scripsit:
>
>> Using dashes for dialogs is not limited to Spanish. Here's a Swedish
>> book using EN dashes:
> As I mentioned earlier, James Joyce's works are written in the same style
> (well, with quotation dashes) in English.  Here's a bit from Chapter 1
> of _Ulysses_:
>
>      Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on.
>
>      ―My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But
>      it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it? Tripping and sunny like the
>      buck himself. We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get
>      the aunt to fork out twenty quid?
>
>    
Are the dashes in your copy different from what's in the actual book? I 
gave the exact characters used in typesetting my examples...

A./

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