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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.

Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:46:39 pm PST #3101 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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 —.

Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:48:40 pm PST #3102 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

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.)

Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:58:44 pm PST #3103 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

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.

P.M. Marc - Feb 17, 2003 12:00:21 am PST #3104 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

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.

Jon B. - Feb 17, 2003 12:04:33 am PST #3105 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Thanks Plei. I changed them in the FAQ (but kept the spaces).

Angus G - Feb 17, 2003 4:43:05 am PST #3106 of 10000
Roguish Laird

What a pity I wasn't around.

It's "Wes's."

And there are no spaces around an em dash.

There, easy, wasn't it?

DXMachina - Feb 17, 2003 8:02:38 am PST #3107 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

And the really amazing thing is that we never got sidetracked onto the puns of punctuation, in all that extended period.

Thank god, because it might have rendered the thread commatose.

Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 17, 2003 8:07:44 am PST #3108 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

t sternly DX, stop. Full stop.

DXMachina - Feb 17, 2003 8:11:22 am PST #3109 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Sorry, it was just a brief period of insanity.

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