Lilah ,'Conviction (1)'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
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.
Coincidentally, I was just searching for that entity yesterday when I was HTMLifying the Mythology FAQ. I put spaces around it. :P
t bows to Jon
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.
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.
Thanks for the warnings Nou.
— is my friend,
Hunh. I was using — Should I change it?
I use &emdash;
According to that page you linked to, it's —.
You *were* using —, Nou.
And the really amazing thing is that we never got sidetracked onto the puns of punctuation, in all that extended period.
(Oh thank the Lord, no we didn't.)
I thought about editing to say no, I don't actually use em dash, because it looks funny to me, but that's where I went to look it up earlier today. Sorry I got it wrong.
Hunh. I was using — Should I change it?
Yes. I mean, I think most browsers can deal with it, but yes.
At least, that's what the W3C tells me.
Thanks Plei. I changed them in the FAQ (but kept the spaces).