That's a good reason. I don't like the baggage on hard returns, though. I had a huge debugging problem once trying to print text into Notepad with C++ because you have to use \\l, \\n, or something weird instead of just the linebreak.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
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Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:07:42 pm PST #3091 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:27:55 pm PST #3092 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ita wouldn't like it. it would force spaces, wouldn't it?
So what if it forces spaces? Why is it bad for an em-dash to have a space on either side?
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2003 11:29:13 pm PST #3093 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No!!!!!!!
That way RL wins!
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:30:01 pm PST #3094 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Oh, who's competitive now?
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:32:11 pm PST #3095 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.
t edit I'm on RL's side.
P.M. Marc - Feb 16, 2003 11:34:00 pm PST #3096 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.
Yeah. The Angel thread kind of got a little off the topic...
I'd still like it as a quick-edit, although in my perfect world, there are no spaces around it, so perhaps I'll just get really good at typing the entity.
Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:35:58 pm PST #3097 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Coincidentally, I was just searching for that entity yesterday when I was HTMLifying the Mythology FAQ. I put spaces around it. :P
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:38:10 pm PST #3098 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
t bows to Jon
P.M. Marc - Feb 16, 2003 11:38:39 pm PST #3099 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For reasons I cannot explain, I keep leaving the # out of it when I type it. Though not when I use it.
— is my friend, but spaces are incorrect. Damn it.
Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:42:36 pm PST #3100 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.
You might want to skip from Perkins "Angel 2: No Time for Losers" Feb 16, 2003 3:10:43 pm EST where Perkins innocently asked if it was correct to say "Wes's lizard brain" or "Wes' lizard brain," on through a discussion of "Zed" vs "Zee" in the alphabet song, a discussion of ellipses and good grammar, through the final post about em and en dashes at Rebecca Lizard "Angel 2: No Time for Losers" Feb 17, 2003 1:20:46 am EST, about three hundred posts later. And the really amazing thing is that we never got sidetracked onto the puns of punctuation, in all that extended period. I think the abstruse points of style put our brains into a comma.
— is my friend,
I use &emdash; from a list of HTML Entities.