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Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In TeX, an em dash is typed as three hyphens ("---"), an en dash as two hyphens ("--"), and a hyphen-minus as one hyphen ("-"). The hyphen-minus (-) is the ASCII character typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, and a dash in ASCII computer files. The Armenian hyphen (ÖŠ), U+058A, is a hyphen from the Armenian alphabet. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash   (2150 words)

Windows BBS - minus sign A hyphen is equivalent to a minus sign.... If the problem is with printing a minus sign, such as in a Word document, and the hyphen is not close enough to what you want, you may wish to try changing your font, if not for the entire document, then at least for this one symbol. To Steve R Jones: The keys to refer to are hyphens, not minus signs. www.windowsbbs.com /showthread.php?t=42411   (842 words)

Hyphen Also known as a dash, minus sign, or negative; the hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark commonly found on the underscore key next to the "0" computer keyboard key. In many word processor software programs an optional hyphen is commonly automatically inserted by a program when a word is cut off by the program because it has reached the end of the page. In computers, the hyphen is commonly used in computer programming and mathematics to subtract one number from another. www.computerhope.com /jargon/h/hyphen.htm   (160 words)

Info Node: (texinfo)minus In the fixed-width font used by Info, `@minus{}' is the same as a hyphen. You should not use `@minus{}' inside `@code' or `@example' because the width distinction is not made in the fixed-width font they use. When you use `@minus' to specify the mark beginning each entry in an itemized list, you do not need to type the braces (*note `@itemize': itemize.). lyre.mit.edu /cgi-bin/info2www?(texinfo)minus   (79 words)

the hypen used in email signatures The hyphen also functions as a minus sign. I think the single hyphen is rather lame, the double hyphen somewhat better, sans hyphen a bit barren. I think the tradition of the hyphen comes from those quotes dumb peple are always quoting: "'Blah, blah, blah.' -Einstein." It should really be an em-dash, though. www.spudart.org /blogs/randomthoughts_comments/P2858_0_3_0   (332 words)

Biocrawler:Manual of Style (dashes) - Biocrawler definition:Biocrawler:Manual of Style (dashes) - Biocrawler The Hyphen, or more accurately known as the hyphen-minus (-), is the shortest dash-like character visually. Historically a double hyphen (--) was used to represent an em dash because on a typewriter the hyphens tend to connect, creating a dash in appearance, but since this is almost never the case in ASCII, do not use this. That is, a spaced double hyphen may only be converted into a spaced em dash or a spaced en dash. www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Biocrawler:Manual_of_Style_(dashes)   (1175 words)

Mixologist: Submission Guidelines Please observe the following conventions concerning dashes: Use a single hyphen with space before it for a minus sign, use a double hyphen (with space before and after) to indicate a "long dash" in text, and a triple hyphen (with no extra space) to indicate a range of numbers (e.g. Some of you are used to indicating an em dash by typing two hyphens [--]. Press the option and hyphen keys together to get this mark. www.mixellany.com /guidelines.html   (1333 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The en dash can not be used in programming languages for a minus, however, since the syntax usually requires a hyphen-minus; since programming languages are usually set in a fixed-pitch (monospaced) font face, the hyphen-minus looks acceptable there. The hyphen-minus(-) was present in the ASCII and EBCDIC character encodings, and is typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, and a dash in ASCII computer files. The en dash is sometimes used as a substitute for the minus sign, when the minus sign character is not available, since the en dash is usually the same width as a plus sign. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash   (2529 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : H The original versions of ISO 8859 specified a 'minus' at <002d> and a « soft hyphen » at <00ad>. For example, ANSI, EBCDIC, later additions to ISO 8859, ISO/IEC/10646, Macintosh, and Unicode specify a 'hyphen' or 'hyphen-minus' at code position <002d>. Some encodings separately encode the 'hyphen' and the 'minus'; but some do not, due to historical and back-compatibility considerations. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/h.htm   (2529 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In TeX, the en dash may normally (depending on the font) be input as a double hyphen-minus ( The hyphen-minus (-) is the ASCII character typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, and a dash in ASCII computer files. A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which has quite different uses. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash_(punctuation)   (2529 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In TeX, the en dash may normally (depending on the font) be input as a double hyphen-minus ( The hyphen-minus (-) is the ASCII character typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, and a dash in ASCII computer files. The em dash is used in much the way a colon or set of parentheses is used: it can show an abrupt change in thought or be used where a period is too strong and a comma too weak. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash_(punctuation)   (2529 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The hyphen-minus (-) is the ASCII character typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, and a dash in ASCII computer files. In TeX, the en dash may normally (depending on the font) be input as a double hyphen-minus ( The em dash is used in much the way a colon or set of parentheses is used: it can show an abrupt change in thought or be used where a period is too strong and a comma too weak. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ndash   (2119 words)

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters): A List Apart It can’t decide if it’s a hyphen, a minus, or an en dash—in fact, the Unicode specification describes it as “hyphen-minus” and defines very specific replacements for each of its personalities. First, neither an em dash nor an en dash should be confused with the hyphen (-), which is used to join compound words together. Some also prefer it to a hyphen when text is set in all capital letters. www.alistapart.com /articles/emen   (2119 words)

Linux Valley - ENCYCLOPEDIA The ISO Latin-1 `Hyphen, Minus Sign' (code 45) prints as a hyphen; a minus sign can be obtained with \-. \(or bar @ \(at at - \- minus minus sign from current font # \(sh numbersign / \(sl slash \ \(rs backslash[] \(sq square.·. All other ISO Latin-1 characters print as themselves with the following exceptions: ` prints as `, ' prints as '; the corresponding ISO Latin-1 characters can be obtained with \` and \(aq. www.linuxvalley.com /encyclopedia/ldp/manpage/man7/groff_char.7.php   (2119 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In TeX, an em dash is typed as three hyphens("---"), an en dash as two hyphens("--"), and a hyphen-minus as one hyphen("-"). In TeX, the en dash may normally (depending on the font) be input as a double hyphen-minus ( A spaced en dash is commonly used for this purpose in British publications, whereas in the USA the tendency is to use the unspaced em dash. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash   (2119 words)

Dashes and hyphens One might conclude from this that if the minus sign cannot be used but the en dash is available (e.g., when the character repertoire is limited to the so-called Windows character set), the en dash is a better surrogate for the minus sign than the hyphen-minus or the em dash. The em dash is a multiple-use punctuation symbol, but it basically separates major parts of a statement, as opposite to the hyphen and the en dash, which have more “local”, separative functions. In some usage, “long dashes” are used: “a two em dash” might indicate missing letters in a word (or sometimes a missing word); whereas “a three em dash” might indicate that a word or phrase has been left out. www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/dashes.html   (2119 words)

Dashes and hyphens One might conclude from this that if the minus sign cannot be used but the en dash is available (e.g., when the character repertoire is limited to the so-called Windows character set), the en dash is a better surrogate for the minus sign than the hyphen-minus or the em dash. The em dash is a multiple-use punctuation symbol, but it basically separates major parts of a statement, as opposite to the hyphen and the en dash, which have more “local”, separative functions. In some usage, “long dashes” are used: “a two em dash” might indicate missing letters in a word (or sometimes a missing word); whereas “a three em dash” might indicate that a word or phrase has been left out. www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/dashes.html   (3124 words)

Detailed descriptions of the characters [The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire] It can usually be called "hyphen" or "minus" depending on the context, but when referred to as a character in a character repertoire, the best term is probably hyphen-minus. It is much better to use these characters for quotations even if they are regarded as typographically inferior than to try to "construct" smart quotes from characters which are not quotes. This is the well-known space character, or blank. www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/latin1/3.html   (3124 words)

trw10.txt Spaces   em space   en space (1/2 em)   digit space (width of a number)   1/3 em space   punctuation space (width of a comma) no break (required) space 2.5 Dashes and hyphens — em dash – en dash ‐ neutral dash/minus ‐ hyphen ­ soft hyphen 2.6. Punctuation marks in ISO 646 The following punctuation marks (taken in a rather wide sense) are available among the non-national characters of ISO 646: space! Includers ( left parenthesis (opening) ) right parenthesis (closing) [ left square bracket (opening) ] right square bracket (closing) ⟨ left angle bracket (opening) &rang: right angle bracket (closing) { left curly braces (opening) } right curly braces (closing) 2.3. www.tei-c.org /Vault/TR/trw10.txt   (1208 words)

Patent 4300981: Layered paper having a soft and smooth velutinous surface, and method of making such paper Each of the data point designators comprises two numbers separated by a hyphen: the number to the left of the hyphen is the Example number (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5); and, the numbers to the right of the hyphen were assigned according to the key listed in Table XIb. Thus, the samples 146a and 146b are designated plus and minus 45 degree samples, respectively. A layered paper and method of making it, which paper is characterized by having a soft, relatively untextured smooth velutinous surface defined by a multiplicity of relatively flaccid papermaking fibers having unbonded free end portions of substantial length, and which surface is subjectively discernible by humans as being extremely soft and smooth. www.freepatentsonline.com /4300981.html   (1208 words)

Dashes and hyphens One might conclude from this that if the minus sign cannot be used but the en dash is available (e.g., when the character repertoire is limited to the so-called Windows character set), the en dash is a better surrogate for the minus sign than the hyphen-minus or the em dash. The phrase “swung dash” normally means a character used, for brevity, in dictionaries to stand for a word or part of word that occurred previously. In some usage, “long dashes” are used: “a two em dash” might indicate missing letters in a word (or sometimes a missing word); whereas “a three em dash” might indicate that a word or phrase has been left out. www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/dashes.html   (1208 words)

Dashes and hyphens One might conclude from this that if the minus sign cannot be used but the en dash is available (e.g., when the character repertoire is limited to the so-called Windows character set), the en dash is a better surrogate for the minus sign than the hyphen-minus or the em dash. In some usage, “long dashes” are used: “a two em dash” might indicate missing letters in a word (or sometimes a missing word); whereas “a three em dash” might indicate that a word or phrase has been left out. The phrase “swung dash” normally means a character used, for brevity, in dictionaries to stand for a word or part of word that occurred previously. www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/dashes.html   (1208 words)

WLUG-Wiki - libpcre(7) The minus (hyphen) character can be used to specify a range of characters in a character class. If a minus character is required in a class, it must be escaped with a backslash or appear in a position where it cannot be interpreted as indicating a range, typically as the first or last character in the class. Classes containing just a single character whose value is greater than 127 (but less than 256), for example, [x80] or [^x{93}], do not work because these are optimized into single byte matches. www.wlug.org.nz /libpcre(7)   (1208 words)

merkit.html ± ± plusmn plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign, U+00B1 ISOnum ¬ ¬ not not sign = discretionary hyphen, U+00AC ISOnum ∏ ∏ prod n-ary product = product sign, U+220F ISOamsb prod is NOT the same character as U+03A0 'greek capital letter pi' though the same glyph might be used for both users.utu.fi /~mlaitine/merkit.html   (2634 words)

Make {"Rare Ligatures", "Logo Ligatures", "Rebus Ligatures", "Diphthong Ligatures", "All Upper Case", "All Lower Case", "Initial Caps", "Don't Compose Diacritics", "Superiors", "No Fractions", "Hyphens to Em Dash", "Hyphen to En Dash", "Hyphen to Minus", "Star to Multiply", "Slash to Divide", "Inequality Ligatures", "Password Style", "Broken Vertical Bar", "Comma Diacritic Forms" }}, color:¬ {on settings:{"Common Ligatures", "No Case Change", "Compose Diacritics", "Normal Vertical Position", "Basic Fractions", Smart Quotes, "No Character Alternatives" }, off settings:¬ scripteur.com /cormoran/as/osa/appl/creator/dico/commandes/make.html   (752 words)

Dash article - Dash Punctuation marks apostrophe parentheses brackets colon comma - What-Means.com A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which has quite different uses. Em dashes are often represented by a pair of spaces surrounding a single minus sign (typical British usage) or by a pair of spaces surrounding two minus signs (mostly in the United States). In consequence, it became common to substitute the nearest incorrect punctuation mark or symbol. www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Dash   (1481 words)

Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Em dashes are often represented by a pair of spaces surrounding a single minus sign (typical British usage) or by a pair of spaces surrounding two minus signs (mostly in the United States). Note that it will not work with the hyphen key on the main keyboard (usually between "0" and "="), which has completely different functions associated with these commands. In professionally printed documents, the typographer sometimes adds a hair space on either side of an em dash (a refinement that is not practicable in electronic form given the limitations of current-generation web browsers) or even a full space, though this last is uncommon. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dash   (1481 words)

The Man in Blue > What's your favourite blip? The hyphen/minus and the interpunct are what I use... Based on that, I think I'll be recommending the interpunct in future. The interpunct is very sleek and minimalist, but perhaps a little too discrete? www.themaninblue.com /writing/perspective/2004/10/11   (2264 words)

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