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joe mcgillHTML guide that explains the proper usage and markup of em and en dashes.
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Chris ZThe dawn of the web has frequently been compared to the invention of the printing press. But the web has also destroyed one of the greatest features of nearly every press since Gutenberg: the ability to publish pleasing type.
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only the decimal form is reliable across browsers and platforms
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Hyphens are Not Dashes
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soft hyphen
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not defined in the HTML
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non-breaking hyphen
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hyphen character
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hyphenation point
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There are fifteen space characters defined in Unicode.
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normal space
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non-breaking space
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hair space
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isn’t defined in HTML
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defined in HTML
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thin space
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en space
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em space
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Arial Unicode MS is the only mainstream font that includes both
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defined by Unicode but not HTML
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zero width space
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zero width no-break space
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There are actually fourteen quotation characters.
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Don’t ever trust the 8-bit representations to be correct
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opening single quote
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closing single quote
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opening double quote
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closing double quote
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No current browser does this by default
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CSS can automatically apply one of the forgotten rules about quotes
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single prime
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feet or minutes
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double prime
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inches or seconds
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ellipsis
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at the end of a sentence, it should be treated in one of three ways, depending on usage
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one dot leader
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not in HTML
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19 Oct 10
Joseph MorninThe dawn of the web has frequently been compared to the invention of the printing press. But the web has also destroyed one of the greatest features of nearly every press since Gutenberg: the ability to publish pleasing type.
The printing press gave us type that was clearer and easier to read than that produced from a typewriter, because the typesetter had additional tools at his disposal—and knew how to use them. The web has cost us some of those tools.
Lack of tools and knowledgeThere are two problems here. The first is that until HTML 4 came along, the web was missing almost all of these tools (it’s still missing many important ones).
But the larger problem is, now that they’re available, almost no one publishing on the web today knows how to use them—or often even knows of their existence.
Read this, though, and you’ll understand the answers to both problems far better than almost anyone else, including your English teachers. -
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makeller63Most HTML References Are Wrong
I’ve lost count of all the books, articles, and websites that claim an em dash is “”—but they’re all wrong. The entire range from through are invalid characters, and consequently should not be used. -
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H. TreeDashes and other delightful type tools, how the web has killed them, and how to use them despite the difficulties presented.
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Don LaVangeem's, en's and spaces. fixing up the world of ugly one character at a time...
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Sergio MoraThe dawn of the web has frequently been compared to the invention of the printing press. But the web has also destroyed one of the greatest features of nearly every press since Gutenberg: the ability to publish pleasing type.
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Thorsten ClausThe printing press gave us type that was clearer and easier to read than that produced from a typewriter, because the typesetter had additional tools at his disposal—and knew how to use them. The web has cost us some of those tools.
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Chris DillonSnapshot
More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here, in this famous and much-bookmarked ALA article.WebDesign reference resource language print W3C writing design typography html web
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hapstersmomBeating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography.
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reinkoA nice overview of the correct use of hyphens and dashes. I love them!
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Owen BlackerThe dawn of the web has frequently been compared to the invention of the printing press. But the web has also destroyed one of the greatest features of nearly every press since Gutenberg: the ability to publish pleasing type.
The printing press gave us tyfrom:firefox-home typography html reference webdesign from:delicious
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