Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

[Tim Thompson]

With monospaced fonts, there aren't true en-dashes and em-dashes, and 
option-hyphen makes a hyphen, while shift-option-hyphen makes a 
double-length hyphen.  In proportionally-spaced fonts however, then 
option-hyphen is indeed mapped to a true en-dash, while 
shift-option-hyphen is mapped to a true em-dash.

Tim

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:52  AM, Fiskum, Steve wrote:

This is news to me. Actually I have talked with several typesetters 
that are baffled by your statement. So could you please give us an 
example of one of the numerous fonts (preferably Adobe fonts)?

My en-dashes are then length of an "n" as it should be and are not 
"identical in appearance to the hyphen."

What am I missing?

Thank you,
Steve Fiskum

From:   Andrew Stiller
Sent:   Friday, September 19, 2003 10:17 AM
The majority of Mac fonts have no true en-dash. Rather, the en-dash
character (option-hyphen) is identical in appearance to the hyphen
and is in fact a hard hyphen. If you need  hard hyphens in a piece,
just choose a font with no true en-dash. They are numerous!


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