I think that dashes should have spaces around them - I always have.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
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
Elena - Oct 10, 2003 2:02:04 pm PDT #5500 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
amych - Oct 10, 2003 2:05:04 pm PDT #5501 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I agree — dashes want spaces!
And yes, this is a gratuitous punctuation post.
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2003 2:05:49 pm PDT #5502 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
E'ry book I've ever worked on for publication—no spaces.
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2003 2:07:36 pm PDT #5503 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It always looks like a staple. Okay, when I draw it.
When I draw pi, it looks like two t's connected at the top. The upper case verdana pi looked like an actual staple, i.e., and upside-down, squared-off U.
Er, I always thought lowercase delta looked kind of like a sperm.
Me, too.
Cindy - Oct 10, 2003 2:08:27 pm PDT #5504 of 10005
Nobody
Plei, how do you type an em dash? Is there an HTML code? I always go with the --.
Cass - Oct 10, 2003 2:09:19 pm PDT #5505 of 10005
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Natter 17 = 4² - cos(π): Nilly — Could This Be Mathier?
Love. Love. Love
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.I was working, I just got here. And it totally shames me that I noticed. Though I am pretending I wouldn't have mentioned it.
Go space! Choose space!Nooooooooooooo!
amych - Oct 10, 2003 2:10:40 pm PDT #5506 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Cindy, it's — — although I'm not Plei, as you can see by my unorthodox and radical but far more readable and aestetically pleasing spaces.
it totally shames me that I noticed
Why be ashamed? After reading the rest of the discussion, do you really think you were the only one to notice?
Cindy - Oct 10, 2003 2:11:03 pm PDT #5507 of 10005
Nobody
Cass is right. You space people are so wrong.
I'm not loving the Pi sign, only because it only looks like a staple.
Cindy - Oct 10, 2003 2:12:12 pm PDT #5508 of 10005
Nobody
Cindy, it's & mdash; — although I'm not Plei, as you can see by my unorthodox and radical but far more readable and aestetically pleasing spaces.
You're not Plei, I can tell, because even though you're equal in hottitude, you suffer from the scourge of unsightly spaces. The—will not be spaced!
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2003 2:14:02 pm PDT #5509 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm not loving the Pi sign, only because it only looks like a staple.
Natter 17 = 4² - cos(π): Nilly — Could This Be Mathier?