>> While working on something entirely unrelated, I stumbled onto this, >> at Wikipedia. Though Musicbrainz is not a wiki, it would seem that if >> they can do it generally, the distinction between hyphen, dash, >> en-dash, and em-dash ought to not scare folks who are dealing with the >> complexities of CSG... :) > >See also this gem ... "En dashes are often preferred to em dashes when >text is set in narrow columns (as in newspapers and similar >publications)." :D > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash
Well, perhaps a few real-world examples... The top is an NMA volume index, post OCR, the lower is a scan from Neal Zaslaw's The Compleat Mozart. Note the use of " -- " in the OCR text, and the use of em-dashes in the printed book... http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/brianfreud/?action=view¤t=dashes.jpg Brian _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
