Em dashes are the best dash there is, though.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2003 11:58:57 am PDT #5490 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tina f. - Oct 10, 2003 12:00:23 pm PDT #5491 of 10005
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.
I wrote the post saying that and then got called away. I am of the opinion as well that em dashes shouldn't have spaces around them when typsetting (I always put spaces around my dashes here though because I'm a lazy SOB who doesn't know how to make a proper em dash). I'm not gonna stare at it everyday and let it drive me mad or anything though.
DCJensen - Oct 10, 2003 12:00:50 pm PDT #5492 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
Helping with the general entertaining nitpickery - maybe "Nilly, could this be mathier?" instead? Sounds more natural, you know?
Natter 18 should be
Natter 18: General Entertaining Nitpickery
Steph L. - Oct 10, 2003 12:01:42 pm PDT #5493 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am of the opinion as well that em dashes shouldn't have spaces around them when typsetting
Ack!!!! Go space! Choose space!
Jon B. - Oct 10, 2003 12:03:15 pm PDT #5494 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I don't remember who thought up the red plus signs. I know that I figured out that the only way to line up all the text was to have invisible plus signs in front of the rest of the rows. (check it out!)
amych - Oct 10, 2003 12:06:22 pm PDT #5495 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
invisible plus signs in front of the rest of the rows.
Dude! Easter egg!
Sean K - Oct 10, 2003 12:38:22 pm PDT #5496 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Dude! Easter egg!
Reason why I love this place, and all you fine people, number fifty billion, six hudred and seventy two.
Nutty - Oct 10, 2003 1:02:42 pm PDT #5497 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
With Steph on the spaces around dashes of any kind, unless it's an actual hyphenation syncopation situation.
My favourite's delta. (He's a perfect triangle. She's a tiny circle with Elvis' hair. They fight constantly!)
Er, I always thought lowercase delta looked kind of like a sperm.
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2003 1:06:44 pm PDT #5498 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ack!!!! Go space! Choose space!
Shudder. Steph, love, that is SOOOOOO wrong.
Cindy - Oct 10, 2003 1:42:43 pm PDT #5499 of 10005
Nobody
Thank goodness, Plei. I thought I was among the heathen.