Re: Subject: Character mangling test
Re: Subject: Character mangling test
- Subject: Re: Subject: Character mangling test
- From: "Vanderlinden, Thomas M." <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:42:39 -0500
Jeff Bauman - - - -
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[option-shift-,] or [option-<] (a high hyphen - who knows the right name?)
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option + hyphen is called n-dash
option + shift + hyphen is called m-dash
They are so called because they were the width
of the lead slugs carrying an "m" or an "n"
in the days of cast metal typesetting,
and are still very useful typographically today.
If you look closely,
in many fonts you will find
that they are not only a different height
from the base line than the hyphen,
but also have different thickness
and a different shape at each end.
- - - Tom Vanderlinden
email@hidden
Bridgeport National Bindery